Ancient Rites
The Diabolical Serenades
This is a Black Metal band with a little bit different sound apart from
their Scandinavian colleges. They are infact from Belgium and the sound
is a lot like Mystifier from brazil if you've heard them. In short terms
it's a very satanic and primitive evil sound perhaps a bit influenced by
Death metal but it sounds pretty good although I can't listen to it to
often, or else I get bored. But a couple of times per month is quite
good.
Rated 



Blasphemia Eternal
A nice Acoustic guitar intro in a sort of movie soundtrack style (The
Unforgiven perhaps) Then it breaks loose. Not as evil and brutal as before
but more technical and original and well performed with better material
instead. The production is very good while the vocals are much more
normal. Some nice keyboards has been added to the music to fill out some
slower parts and they are probably the best on this album. Otherwise is
the music much like before without the same brutality, but still mostly
very fast. So if you liked their old stuff, will you probably like this
one as well. Personally I think this isn't as good as their debut album
but I know many who thinks that this is much better.
Rated 

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