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.
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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.
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