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During the late 1980’s and the early 90’s, Europe gave birth to a new subgenre of “extreme” metal that we all have come to call black metal. Black metal has its roots in bands such as Venom and Bathory and comprises of harsh, shrieking vocals, blast beats and usually Satanism as its central focus. In 1993, Norway became witness to the largest black metal explosion on earth with multiple bands such as Mayhem and Burzum rising from the scene.
A year later in 1994, a group by the name of Siebenburgen was starting the black metal trend in their home of Sweden. Combining heavy riffing guitars, melodic keyboards, blast beats, misanthropic vocals, and not to mention a hot chick singer just like Cradle Of Filth’s Sarah Deva, Siebenburgen brings the styles of traditional and melodic black metal with a touch of gothic essence to the table in their newest release Revelation VI.
Revelation VI opens with the prelude “Awaken” and then explodes with “Rebirth of the Nameless.” From there, the album has a lot of surprising elements in each of the advancing tracks such as going from an onslaught of riffing and blast beats to a beautiful voice from the band’s chick singer. Songs on the album demonstrated this at random points but not all the time. If you’re not the person who goes for a chick singer in a black metal group, the album still has you covered with a mix of melody and brutality dished out in increments to where you won’t tire of blasting and chick vocals. Speaking of brutality, the track titled “Grimheim,” has to be one of the coolest songs on the album. It gives you the feeling of listening to Megadeth and Cradle of Filth while they’re attempting to kick each other’s ass in a bar fight because the riffing and structure literally sounds like both bands would’ve combined into one group because you get an awesome combo of blasting and “chugging.”
Bottom Line: A great album with an awesome mixture of melody and blast beats that Cradle of Filth and Satyricon fans will really like.
Key Tracks: Rebirth of the Nameless, Infernaliia, Grimheim, The Soulless, and In Sanctum
Reviewed by: Patrick Stevens
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