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REVIEW: Immortal - Battles In The North Osmose Productions, 1995
10/10
Immortal - Battles In The North - cover art The black metal pioneers Immortal have made it again. This album is superb and even the albums before this one are great but this album takes us to another level. All the classic Norwegian riffs and sound is there, so is the brutal feeling combined with some softer parts that are as good as the rest of the album. All the songs included on this album are raw, brutal and fast. With the soft parts in them they manage to create a atmosphere that is as dark and mysterious as Blashyrkh itself. The vocals feel like a little evil demon standing there and spitting out its disgust over something or someone, or is it just evil? But it's all good, this performance is the very best that I´ve heard in a long time. Hours and hours float by, so do the tracks but nothing on this album bores me out, it just keeps on being better and better for every time. When you look at the album cover you may get the feeling that they try and manage to reach (For those of you that have not seen it: It's two members of Immortal sitting in the snow with their broad axe guitars). And tell me, isn't the winter cold, dark and evil? Anyway, so is this album a great step in the right direction for Immortal and I look forward to the next with this wonderful band, when it's finally going to arrive I´m going to feel like a kid on Christmas Eve. Until then the words will still echo in my head… Blashyrkh mighty raven dark!

written by Christian Andersson

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Tracklist

1. Battles In The North
/> 2. At The Stormy Gates Of Mist
3. Through The Halls Of Eternity
/> 4. Moonrise Fields Of Sorrow
5. Cursed Realms Of The
Winterdemons
6. Throned By Blackstorms
7. Grim And Frostbitten
Kingdoms
8. Descent Into Eminent Silence
9. Circling Above In
Time Before Time
10. Blashyrkh (Mighty Ravendark)

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Playing time: 35.20

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