![]() ![]() The subsequent conflict about the rights to use the band name really didn’t feel like a good growing ground for a new Immortal album, but surprisingly, but very welcome, Demonaz and Horgh did put my doubts on shame and with “Northern Chaos Gods” they show that not only love, but also good music starts with a fuss!Īlready by the high speed riffing of the initial title song, you realize that this is not the Immortal that released “All Shall Fall”, but something different, far more aggressive, blasting out their icy serenades of doom and death. Abbath however, was out of the band, kicked from his own creation by long term drummer Horgh and the returning Demonaz who had once again picked up the guitar. Therefore, my hopes were somewhat low when I found out that Immortal, which had once again been dissolved in the spring of 2015, once again had been resurrected from its frozen grave, just a few months later. Although critically acclaimed, in my opinion this record was hardly nothing more than a bland parody of Immortal and it carried far too many similarities with Abbaths, in my eyes not very exciting, Heavy Metal-sounding solo project “I”. Immortal, however, arose to the world of the living again with the, among fans well-received, comeback album “All Shall Fall” in 2009. After the last album of that era, the successful “Sons of Northern Darkness”, an album that, for a band still considered as “true”, reached unsuspected popularity even outside the Black Metal-sphere, Abbath shocked their growing fan base by announcing that the band suddenly, and due to personal reasons, was dissolved. ![]() Immortal adopted an increasingly epic form and with that, became a little more accessible on the following three albums to come. An era which became their most successful period up until now. Immortal however survived this ordeal, and with remaining original member “Abbath Doom Occulta” at the helm, Demonaz taking a step back concentrating on writing the lyrics for the band, a new era of Immortal begun. Immortal then continued their journey on the same path with the, albeit a bit more epic, also great “Battles of The North”.Īfter that, the story seemed to have come to an end, with the release of the fan dividing, either love or hate, “Morbid Angel goes Black Metal”-sounding, album “Blizzard Beasts”, as one of the principal members and co-founder of the band, guitarist “Demonaz Doom Occulta” suffered severe tendonitis in his arm and thus could no longer deliver the fast and complex guitars Immortals music demanded. Releasing their first full length album as early as 1991, the more or less genre-defining “Diabolical Fullmoon Mysticism”, they immediately set the expectations high and then peaked early in the career with the sequel, the whirlwind phased “Pure Holocaust”, setting the standard on how fast and brutal Black Metal should be delivered. Immortals road to the top of the snow-covered mountain peaks have been a quite winding path, lined with hinders and obstacles, but with their ice cold take on Black Metal they have, even though never sharing either the religious or ideological aspect of their contemporary genre colleagues, always been counted as a core group in the second wave of Black Metal. ![]() With the release of “Northern Chaos Gods”, Immortal make their best to live up to their name and returns from the realm of the dead to show that, once again, this band is something to be counted with, even after death! With this album Immortal make their third reboot, and delivers one of the stronger albums in the later part of the Immortal discography! ![]()
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