That song criticized didn't sound at all like rap-rock. It was just Abbath being a bit faster with his vocal patterns. That being said, album sounds like its killer!
I kinda disagree with your comment about the placement of the cover song, I actually prefer having cover songs in the middle of the album. One of my pet peeves is when a bad has a really strong closing song that ends the album in a definitive and satisfying way, and then just tosses in a random, like, King Diamond song or something after it that completely ruins the mood.
My first thoughts about the cover: it looks like a Power Rangers villain. However, I really enjoyed the album so far. Nothing blowing me away, but it's very enjoyable. Also, I'd wager we don't need anymore Metallica covers in general.
So glad to see KVAEN getting some light. Guys been grinding out some of the most amazing music and he’s an amazing dude. Definitely check out the first release too.
I enjoy this album a lot more than the last. Feels like he sunk more into the black n’ roll sound but also added a diminish chord sound signature to his melodies. Seems very Abbath all around. I give it 4/5 bathes 🤘🏽
Good review mate. I kinda like having a cover song around the 5-7 mark of an album. Breaks it up, gives the opportunity to refresh and finish an album strong. Surprisingly, I actually liked his take on the song..... and I don't normally do "Metallica" cover songs (They normally suck balls)
My cat's markings are eerily similar to Abbath's corpsepaint. I'll listen to this album, but I haven't been overly impressed with most of his "solo" stuff. I do like that Turst record, though.
Totally agree - Metallica may not have realised that in 1984 they made a Black Metal masterpiece that was waiting for Abbath to cover it in 2022. Its stunning!!!
Food poisoning is no fun, hope you're doing better now Blayne. Abbath sounds a lot better production-wise than Dark Funeral. Also, so happy that Kvaen got a shout out as that album is fantastic!
Glad to see Abbath still doing his thing, strong record and I think I prefer this one's production over the last two. Also, there's a new Eucharist record out today if you need more frosty black(ened) metal :D
I was hoping this new album was going to crush and it does. I'm kinda okay with his vocals being mixed in the background and not up front because the music is phenomenal. I enjoy this one a lot more than Outstrider.
A new album from Glemsel was released this week, and that's pretty black metal, so you could have mentioned them, but two danish shoutouts in one video might be a bit too much.
This album is huge!!!! I can challenge anyone who criticizes it...however I feel the cover should have been in the end....but it's really not a big deal
Abbath has been on a mission to bring coolness to BM and man he just can do it! Because he's been there since the beginning! Are we still going to skip Death Spell Omega releases, I mean the music is sick and they say they are not fascists, Miko was. Why am I writing this, because they have released an album titled " The Last Defeat". Would this fall under Burzum, Drukh, ... even Iced Earth banner of booo booo list that you occasionally listen to only in private??? I do not know. But hey Blayne maybe we can mention them! I mean the music is quite sick right?
I guess I'm the odd one out here. I think this is probably his worst album. Not because the music is necessarily bad, but because I CAN'T FUCKING HEAR IT MOST OF THE TIME. The production is so muddy that the guitars are almost entirely lost. And before the kvltists start their little diatribe about how 'black metal is supposed to sound like shit', I think there's more than enough BM that proves that is absolute bullshit. Immortal/Abbath have always had this element to their sound, but it goes way too far here to the point where its hard to distinguish one song from the next, and I can't get a feel for the riffs. Dream Cull is probably the only exception, but Trapped Under Ice is just case and point. It sounds almost unrecognisable because everything is so messy. There's a balance to be had, and the balance is not right here IMO.
For amazing Black Metal, check out Kanonenfieber. They recently released a single about the current situation and the video that goes along with it just takes the song to a whole new level.
I wish their newest (2021) album was a little louder, whenever I get to a track from their new album after listening to something else I have to jack the volume way up
@@BabyfaceThompson yea,,that would be amazing....one day I hope. ..They got shirts on Season of mist site....I got excited to soon....thought there was a album Out too.
Nah, that song is definitely not rap metal. Simply growling fast is not rap. Slayer has some pretty quickly-delivered vocals and nobody would consider them rap metal
The production on this album is dreadful coupled with forgettable songs made for a very difficult and unpleasant listen, cant believe you gave it 4/5 when it doesnt warrant any more than 2.5
Abbath being out there having a blast just making the music he wants to makes me happy.
He's having an abblast
Indeed !indeed.
That song criticized didn't sound at all like rap-rock. It was just Abbath being a bit faster with his vocal patterns. That being said, album sounds like its killer!
I'm digging the album. I love the Trapped Under Ice cover.
I actually think it's the best album his done for sometime.
I kinda disagree with your comment about the placement of the cover song, I actually prefer having cover songs in the middle of the album. One of my pet peeves is when a bad has a really strong closing song that ends the album in a definitive and satisfying way, and then just tosses in a random, like, King Diamond song or something after it that completely ruins the mood.
I'm glad knowing Abbath is recovered.
My first thoughts about the cover: it looks like a Power Rangers villain. However, I really enjoyed the album so far. Nothing blowing me away, but it's very enjoyable. Also, I'd wager we don't need anymore Metallica covers in general.
I don't see a problem with the album cover it's just Abbath being Abbath..
To be honest ,Immortal sounded AMAZING with Demonaz rather than Abbath.Northern Chaos Gods was one of the best BM records i've ever heard
So glad to see KVAEN getting some light. Guys been grinding out some of the most amazing music and he’s an amazing dude. Definitely check out the first release too.
I enjoy this album a lot more than the last. Feels like he sunk more into the black n’ roll sound but also added a diminish chord sound signature to his melodies. Seems very Abbath all around. I give it 4/5 bathes 🤘🏽
Nice review blain!!! Only thing i can disagree with here is the cover art, i really dig it!
Gotta appreciate how the video editor's always game for the "skulls that are..." imagery 😄
three amazing shout outs..... Heltekvad especially is blowing my mind right now. you nailed it Blayne.
Good review mate. I kinda like having a cover song around the 5-7 mark of an album. Breaks it up, gives the opportunity to refresh and finish an album strong.
Surprisingly, I actually liked his take on the song..... and I don't normally do "Metallica" cover songs (They normally suck balls)
Endre Kirkesola is credited for mixing the album. He produced and mixed Outstrider as well.
The bonus track is "Make My Day" from Motorhead.
Awesome review! I have been listening to the new Kvaen album and the new Abbath album all day and they are both Awesome 🔥👍👍🤘🤘
KVAEN is amazing. I was lucky enough to catch them live last year. Beautiful performance and amazing dude
Thanks for the shout out browski. Cheers! //JB
I love the cover art.
Contracting food poisoning when you're vegan is quite a feat, good job!
Lol, that was my thought too. I haven’t had meat in years and it has coincided with not getting food poisoning once since
How do you know someone is vegan ?
They will F*** tell you !!
@@Malkav65 I also don't eat meat. Good to know Abbath doesn't! Just like Barney Greenway, Gaahl, and Thomas Fischer.
I hear quite regularly of e.coli and other things in lettuce, sprouts, spinach, and other leafy vegetables.
@@Malkav65 I’ve eaten meat for 40 years and never had food poisoning 🤷♂️
My cat's markings are eerily similar to Abbath's corpsepaint. I'll listen to this album, but I haven't been overly impressed with most of his "solo" stuff. I do like that Turst record, though.
I think the cover is pretty sweet, not as good as the last album but better than the first one's.
Can’t wait to hear what you think of The Long Defeat
Glad there’s a reply that I can’t read.
trapped under ice fits the rest of the CD .excellent choice
Totally agree - Metallica may not have realised that in 1984 they made a Black Metal masterpiece that was waiting for Abbath to cover it in 2022. Its stunning!!!
...I appreciate the Türst suggestion immensely.
You wanna know what's the best way to NOT talk about bands for whatever reason?
NOT actually talking, hinting, alluding or suggesting them.
We dont mention the new DSO record here right? ;-)
The album cover looks like a unused poster idea for the movie Legend.
Great review as always and great recs. We can always count on you my friend.
Food poisoning is no fun, hope you're doing better now Blayne. Abbath sounds a lot better production-wise than Dark Funeral. Also, so happy that Kvaen got a shout out as that album is fantastic!
The album cover reminds me of the Devil in the movie called LEGEND played by Tim Curry. Maybe it's just me.
TOP BLACK METAL POSER....
Glad to see Abbath still doing his thing, strong record and I think I prefer this one's production over the last two. Also, there's a new Eucharist record out today if you need more frosty black(ened) metal :D
I don't know who Blayne was shitting on with that last comment, but for some reason I enjoyed it a lot
If I had to guess it would be a band whose name rhymes with BreathSmell Lou Bega
Yeah, I'm not sure who he's referring to either.
@@PortofDream if that's an original then I take my hat off to you, good sir
He's showing his cowardice...
Agathodeimon - The Seven & Nite - Voices of the Kronian Moon also came out this week.
The Trapped Under Ice cover is very well done, the title fits perfectly, icicled peaks as far as the eye can see ... 😎🤘
Book of Breath almost sounded like Maiden, judging from what I heard in the video. I'm intrigued.
I was not expecting The Book of Breath to be that good. Wow.
Jus right off the bat, I liked it. Thought it was cool. Now. On with the public flogging….
I could watch this guy review a Thanksgiving Dinner
I'm 100% with you on the Metallica cover. It sounded like a bonus track.
It's not a bonus a track on the album, because the real bonus track is a Motorhead cover on the limited edition CD.
I like the cover . Only way make it better is if it was blood and moon in background. ..
I was hoping this new album was going to crush and it does. I'm kinda okay with his vocals being mixed in the background and not up front because the music is phenomenal. I enjoy this one a lot more than Outstrider.
This is a great album. I love it!
"Trapped Under Ice" hasn't been covered as much as this dude makes it seem
I haven't heard even one
A new album from Glemsel was released this week, and that's pretty black metal, so you could have mentioned them, but two danish shoutouts in one video might be a bit too much.
This album is huge!!!! I can challenge anyone who criticizes it...however I feel the cover should have been in the end....but it's really not a big deal
I really like it have all three abbath albums there all so good
On a day when Father Befouled AND Desolate Shrine release 2 bangers, this is the one that gets reviewed?! I am not mad, I am dissapointed!
Those records are SICK though.
It's going to take time for me to fully appreciate it. So far it's ok.
Though you looked a bit drained of colour, hope you're feeling better now, Blayne!!
Abbath has been on a mission to bring coolness to BM and man he just can do it! Because he's been there since the beginning! Are we still going to skip Death Spell Omega releases, I mean the music is sick and they say they are not fascists, Miko was. Why am I writing this, because they have released an album titled " The Last Defeat". Would this fall under Burzum, Drukh, ... even Iced Earth banner of booo booo list that you occasionally listen to only in private??? I do not know. But hey Blayne maybe we can mention them! I mean the music is quite sick right?
The Long Defeat?
New DSO album bangs. So does this
I think the cover looks like homage to Tim Curry in Legend.
It's probably what Abbath was going for
Without the food poisoning I would have complained about lack of jokes about dead beavers
This album will definitely fall under my biggest disappointments of the year. There are some good parts but overall it's a mess.
I love this album.
This shit is 🔥🔥🔥
Why don't black metal fans take showers?... because they prefer Abbath
I'm from Argentina. Just gonna say the South remembers!!
I guess I'm the odd one out here. I think this is probably his worst album. Not because the music is necessarily bad, but because I CAN'T FUCKING HEAR IT MOST OF THE TIME. The production is so muddy that the guitars are almost entirely lost. And before the kvltists start their little diatribe about how 'black metal is supposed to sound like shit', I think there's more than enough BM that proves that is absolute bullshit. Immortal/Abbath have always had this element to their sound, but it goes way too far here to the point where its hard to distinguish one song from the next, and I can't get a feel for the riffs. Dream Cull is probably the only exception, but Trapped Under Ice is just case and point. It sounds almost unrecognisable because everything is so messy. There's a balance to be had, and the balance is not right here IMO.
ABBATT!
Quality Poison Ruin garbs you got there.
Let's get a review on Absent in Body - Plague God
Best Abbath album so far IMNHO. Bathory meets Motörhead, and they sound like they are having a blast.
Laughed out loud at that Rob Zombie dig hahaha I'm a fan, but that's just funny.
Grand Harvest EP Blackened death doom record is pretty good
So cool
ahhh.... ah.....a.....aaaah....a....ah
Attempt to translate that Heltekvad album title: “The morning red’s lord of hell”
For amazing Black Metal, check out Kanonenfieber. They recently released a single about the current situation and the video that goes along with it just takes the song to a whole new level.
*when you know what the awkward silence band is*
What band is it??????????
Yeah was wondering if we’d get a review of that but not surprised if BangerTV doesn’t want to deal with them.
ABS-AB!
Blayne holy mountain printing has new Hooded Menace merch if you didn't know already
I wish their newest (2021) album was a little louder, whenever I get to a track from their new album after listening to something else I have to jack the volume way up
Abbath is the best. From Immortal to his solo stuff to letting his nuts hang in a photo shoot, you can't help but like the guy.
It used to be Seasons of Mist, now just Season correct? Or is this Mandela Effect??
I could be mistaken, but I think it's always been Season of Mist
Hahahaha, guilty of buying that snow globe. It sits on my desk at work (and probably scaring everyone I work with).
Blayne reviews? I watch.
I kinda thought the "rap rock" song sounded like a black metal version of a Killing Joke song from 2003
Covers on albums are almost 100% of the time a bad idea. Release it on a single, an EP or a live album, but not on an original LP.
It's fine album nothing blew me away 3/5 skulls
ha, ha... little anti-nod to Deathspell Omega there - shame, as the bloke he has the problem with ain't on the new one.
Meh/10. Really liked the last one. This one is just fine.
Great album must say , but too short ! only 39min and 4min was taken by Metallica cover.
The part you thought sounded like rap rock was sick 😂
I , still the best Abbath solo album.
Feel better dude.
Album is killer through and through....It has so much of a Motörhead vibe to it it even comes with a Motörhead cover....10/10!
I wish Abbath would just do a BOMBERS album already, go full Motorhead
@@BabyfaceThompson yea,,that would be amazing....one day I hope.
..They got shirts on Season of mist site....I got excited to soon....thought there was a album Out too.
When you'll review new DSO?
Did you watch to the end….
@@metalyuppie I did, and, well, ball less as always.
How people gonna complain about Dark Funerals new album production, but not even talk about the muddy production of this one?
Scarred Core....that is not rap rock dude. at all. It sounds like typical Abbath.
what if he did Dyers Eve?
The reviewer made it seem like "Trapped Under Ice" is covered by a ton of bands.. it's not, so I don't know why he was so hot about it
I thought the metallica cover was cool!
I cant get into .. but i like some immortal.. im more about dark throne..
The production makes the album very hard to listen to. The guitars are so washed out it's hard to make out what's going on most of the time.
666 thumbs up !! No one clicks that thumb again . Hail Abbath
Fuzz is a privilege, not a right. If you can't use it properly, it's not for you. Kind of like spandex.
Nah, that song is definitely not rap metal. Simply growling fast is not rap. Slayer has some pretty quickly-delivered vocals and nobody would consider them rap metal
The production on this album is dreadful coupled with forgettable songs made for a very difficult and unpleasant listen, cant believe you gave it 4/5 when it doesnt warrant any more than 2.5
I didn't like this album, just shows that if Abbath had full control of Immortal, it would absolutely suck.
ABBATH is old and soft IMHO, no more dark blast beat madness