Storm of the Light's Bane Review
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Album | Storm of the Light's Bane |
Type | Album (Studio full-length) |
Released | November 17, 1995 |
Genres | Melodic Black Metal |
Labels | Nuclear Blast |
Length | 43:17 |
Ranked | #2 for 1995 , #49 all-time |
Album rating : 92.6 / 100
Votes : 88 (8 reviews)
Votes : 88 (8 reviews)
October 16, 2022
The legendary Storm of the Light’s Bane is considered perhaps the greatest Meloblack album ever put to record, and for good reason. Every track is chock full of dark and icy riffs, thanks in part to its heavy Melodeath influence. You see that beautiful cover art with the reaper on horseback amongst a nocturnal tundra mountain scape? Yeah, this album just sounds like that. The beauty of cold, night, and death are all emanating from the electrifying songwriting here.
Black Metal tends to be a bit one note, and Meloblack is a much more purposeful aversion of that, but even among Meloblack, Dissection give us progressive, complicated, ever changing songwriting with weaves and turns up and down the mountains and through the evergreens. Even some acoustic passages give reprieve from that arctic assault. The vocals are fantastic, quite intelligible and death-touched shrieks. Drumming is lightning quick, but flows like a stream, full of smooth transitions and interesting fills, liberal use of double bass, a perfect mix of interesting and challenging. I need not go on about the guitars; awe-inspiring.
Dissection seem to love sandwiching their masterpiece compositions between useless intros and outros, so unfortunately bookending the album with the weakest and most boring tracks damages its listenability. Other than that, no flaws.
Black Metal tends to be a bit one note, and Meloblack is a much more purposeful aversion of that, but even among Meloblack, Dissection give us progressive, complicated, ever changing songwriting with weaves and turns up and down the mountains and through the evergreens. Even some acoustic passages give reprieve from that arctic assault. The vocals are fantastic, quite intelligible and death-touched shrieks. Drumming is lightning quick, but flows like a stream, full of smooth transitions and interesting fills, liberal use of double bass, a perfect mix of interesting and challenging. I need not go on about the guitars; awe-inspiring.
Dissection seem to love sandwiching their masterpiece compositions between useless intros and outros, so unfortunately bookending the album with the weakest and most boring tracks damages its listenability. Other than that, no flaws.
2 likes
Track listing (Songs)
title | rating | votes | video | ||
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1. | At the Fathomless Depths | 1:56 | 77.3 | 15 | |
2. | Night's Blood | 6:40 | 96.8 | 21 | Audio |
3. | Unhallowed | 7:29 | 93.1 | 20 | Audio |
4. | Where Dead Angels Lie | 5:51 | 95.9 | 21 | Audio |
5. | Retribution - Storm of the Light's Bane | 4:51 | 91 | 17 | |
6. | Thorns of Crimson Death | 8:06 | 94.1 | 18 | |
7. | Soulreaper | 6:57 | 91.5 | 15 | |
8. | No Dreams Breed In Breathless Sleep | 1:26 | 81 | 12 |
Line-up (members)
- Jon Nodtveidt : Vocals & Guitars
- Johan Norman : Guitars
- Peter Palmdahl : Bass
- Ole Ohman : Drums
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Mefisto 80/100
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<디섹션, 익스트림씬에 최후의 기(氣)를 불어넣고 사라지다>
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▶ Storm of the Light's Bane Review (1995)
SilentScream213 90/100
Oct 16, 2022 Likes : 2
The legendary Storm of the Light’s Bane is considered perhaps the greatest Meloblack album ever put to record, and for good reason. Every track is chock full of dark and icy riffs, thanks in part to its heavy Melodeath influence. You see that beautiful cover art with the reaper on horseback amongst a nocturnal tundra mountain scape? Yeah, this album just sounds like that. The...
SilentScream213 85/100
Feb 8, 2022 Likes : 2
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That’s what makes The Somberlain unique, bu... Read More
TheBerzerker 90/100
Nov 14, 2008 Likes : 2
스웨덴 출신 Dissection의 첫 출발. 이들은 데뷔앨범에서부터 이런 굉장한 포스를 보이며 새롭게 당시의 스칸디나비안 블랙메탈 씬에 등장했는데, 완성도가 굉장한 앨범이다..
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TheBerzerker 96/100
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