This album is a foundation shaker and a must for all fans of the genre! Favorite track: The Necromancer. Toranaga Sama. Tommy Wheeler. Chaos Storm. Kat H. Mattias Janebrink. Maxim V. Robert Sjostrom. Wanton Glutton of Inhabitants.
Anthony Eastman. Shayla Jones. Christian Kummerfeldt Fabian. Denis Rozhkov. FE Corral B. Andy j j. Dylan Haseltine. Sold Out. Womb of Lilithu Splendour Nigri Solis Astaroth Black Moon Rising Show lyrics loading lyrics Spawned by Evil Show lyrics loading lyrics Bloodthirst Show lyrics loading lyrics Venaesectio Episode One instrumental loading lyrics Darkside Show lyrics loading lyrics The Call Show lyrics loading lyrics Descension Episode Two instrumental loading lyrics Nailing the Holy One Show lyrics loading lyrics Nifelhel Episode Three instrumental loading lyrics Christian Slaughter Show lyrics loading lyrics Nema Show lyrics loading lyrics Recording information: Recorded between the eclipse of the moon and the eclipse of the sun at Sunlight Studio, Stockholm, April The Nocturnal Silence Surely they were tempted to name the album after one of the cooler, more blasphemous, song titles like Black Moon Rising or Nailing the Holy One.
Oh well, enough nitpicking and on with the music. Darkside is a very fast paced album. The duration itself is quite short, and the songs whiz by like an exciting page-turning book. There are no lame fade-outs and most of the songs kick off with a blast.
Nifelhel, on the other hand, is the only metal instrumental and is actually one of my favourite moments of the album. Certainly the most melodic riffs here, and damn, they sound absolutely great. This could actually be my favourite song off the album. Nailing the Holy One almost comes off as a sort of anthem, with its chug-like riffs leading into a frenzied blur of blastbeats and storming guitar.
Pacing could be improved, but the songs are top quality and the continuity still plays through quite nicely. Wicked cover art, wicked riffs, and wicked everything. This album would bask in your blood and smoke a cigarette if it could. But rather roughly a half hour of quality content than a padded release, right? I can see what the band was trying to do, but all these tracks do is bog the album down in red-light, green-light fashion.
Each song is relatively short, as Necrophobic usually keep it. Cold production, gothic tone, clean leads, and an onslaught of tremolo riffs. With that awesome cover art, it even trumps the debut in some ways. I wonder if many of you have been surprised when Necrophobic released their second album, "Darkside". OK, maybe after the "Spawned by Evil" MCD one cold expect even darker and more evil music coming from the Swedish band, especially if we compare it to the "The Nocturnal Silence" debut But myself I was quite surprised to get something what basically is almost pure black metal album.
Of course it all depends how you want to classify it, as bands like Dissection are for some death metal, others will call it black metal And maybe it doesn't even matter at all, as long as the music is great, but really, "Darkside" is little bit different from the debut - much blacker. Of course a lot of it has to do with the fact that it was David Parland, a'ka Blackmoon, who wrote majority of the album. Blackmoon had his very original way of writing music, focusing on melody and choruses, but playing it at great speed - something he wonderfully developed on Dark Funeral's "Secrets of the Black Arts" masterpiece and in his band Infernal.
Dissection's "Somberlain" must have been a great influence for Necrophobic. Listen to such songs as "Spawned by Evil" and "Darkside" and tell me, isn't it very close to that band? But the songwriting on "Darkside" is great. I really, really, like all the songs from it. They just have everything I would like to hear from such band They're well diversified, fast or mid paced, with choruses, melodic, but very uncompromising and brutal. And have this great sinister, evil atmosphere.
It's even hard to decide, which song I like best, as they're all pretty even. Maybe putting three instrumental tracks on such a short album could be controversial, but I think they add an extra atmosphere into the whole concept.
There're two songs that Parland didn't participate in composing of The first one was composed by Martin Halfdan only and is surprisingly slow, but still highly melodic song, which really stands aside from majority of the album, as it hasn't got that viciousness and satanic feeling.
It's pretty calm I can describe it. Then the closing track was composed by Halfdan and drummer Joakim Sterner. I must say that "Christian Slaughter" also seems slightly different. OK, it does fit to the album perfectly, but somehow has different kind of playing and the song structure is different. Good anyway! Lyric wise the album is pretty bad he, he.
Let's be honest - it's not the best poetry ever written. Some of the lyrics like the one for "Spawned by Evil" are almost infantile. Oh come on - verse like: "Lord of lords, god of gods, Lead me to the altar where the virgin waits for me. I suck and drink from her cunt" brings nothing, but smile to my face he, he. Besides, how many times one could read about moons, drinking or spilling blood or wandering in the cold night?
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