The raw production serves this album very well. This album has a good, raw and fuzzy production and I am in love with this production, so let's delve into that. The best song on the album, Eternal Frost precedes the outro track, the 9 minute self titled track and they're each awesome tracks. Goden crushes for 8 minutes and after that we have the duo of Power and Might/Destiny which has a slow and foreboding drum beat that I simply can't get enough of, and the band speeds up once Destiny starts and it's one of the best songs on the album. The keyboards that back these gloomy numbers adds so much to the atmosphere of pure disillusion and despair of war. After this, however, we get Servants of The Warsmen which is reminiscent of Celtic Frost. This could be used in a movie for a scene of a battlefield after the battle is over, with fires still burning, the moon shining what little light there is to offer and the bodies littering the entire place. This album starts out with a gloomy, depressing and dark intro instrumental that's nearly 6 minutes long. Let's delve into one of my favorite albums ever and discuss what makes it so good. With an album cover like that, you have to expect some gloomy and hopeless music. These three records are, Asphyx-The Rack, Autopsy-Mental Funeral, and last but definitely not least, Winter-Into Darkness. Blackened death metal is sometimes referred to as "War metal" and you have blackened doom metal, blackened thrash, funeral doom, progressive genres and then just "death/doom" This album in my opinion is part of the big 3 of most influential death/doom records released from 1990-91. It's a rare case of a genre of music in metal that is literally a blend. In this journey i've realized the scarcity of the genre, and have come to appreciate what it is. Now as I'm finding more bands in the genre, I'm discovering bands that have gothic influence and later became full fledged gothic metal bands, i've heard pure doom and gloom with barely any melody like this LP and disembowelment's debut, and other bands as well, like Cianide and Hooded Menace that just play straight up death/doom. Death/doom is my absolute favorite genre of metal ever since I heard Asphyx. This album was something I fell in love with the first time I heard it. Worth getting, for sure.Įdit: please imagine the review title as a Warrior "ugh" pitch shifted way down and time stretched a lot, thankyou. That said it is a very good album, I'm glad I found my physical copy and I reckon my kids are gonna "love" listening to this for the next week or two in the subaru. While I really like it and can appreciate it's place in history it doesn't really grab me the way that other classics, like Disembowelment's Transcendence for example, grab me. A legitimately unfriendly album to this day. This album is really fucken heavy, and if anything, it sounds heavier upon repeated listens. The tuned down to z guitars and deeply guttural vocals haven't been watered down by time, really, the only thing that dates it is the somewhat awkward drum production. It is maybe a bit samey, but I don't think that's a terrible thing necessarily, it basically just means that Winter knew exactly what they were going for and didn't see any need to deviate.Īnd besides, someone screaming "Chaos, my destiny" over an absolute wrecking ball of a riff while the drums pound away in kinda-fast early Celtic Frost style is the sort of thing that will always sound fantastic, and while it's just an interlude I'm fairly impressed by Power & Might's ultradoom tendencies, almost Sunn-ish in places. But really, it's basically a slowed down, much nastier early Celtic Frost. This album gets people waxing lyrical, and I get that as it is a good album, came out very early as far as historical context goes, all that kinda stuff. It tends to tick along at a sauropodean plod, a caveman thump on some bad downers. The guitars, subterranean blasts of chromatic anti-melody, John's excellent Warrior-but-deeper vocals, a rhythm section that just adds to the desolate plodding. Extremely apt.Īnyway, the music is great, it basically sounds like someone pitch shifted Celtic Frost down an octave, added a tiny bit of keyboard in and called it a day. John Alman going "DEAFENING SCREAMS" while you readjust the clothes over and over again. You want a desolate experience? My suggestion is to have this in the background while you try to get your clothes dryer working, but because a capacitor in the dryer (I think) is fucked you have to have the weight distribution PERFECT or the thing won't start. I've always enjoyed this album but never really given it a close listen a lot of nods about how influential it is, occasionally putting it on while I clean the fucken house or something.
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