crimsonfloyd
Active Member
Hardly. While there's no denying that Inquisition owes a great deal of their sound to Pure Holocaust, they've continually been refining their unique take on black metal (particularly with Dagon's infatuation with layering dissonant broken chords, which are utilized with a degree of finesse that few BM bands can compete with) and progressing, conceptually, with each album. I almost feel like Ominous Doctrines... helped codify their entire back catalog, as every album before it seems to be anticipating what they achieved on that release. Say what you will about the vocals, but don't discredit Inquisition for calling upon the established classics to inform their distinct approach to making black metal instead of just tossing out the playbook, so to speak, and starting from scratch (which results in HIV+ failure 99% of the time).
I went back and listened to "Ominous..." and you're right, there is some pretty cool use of dissonant riffs on the album. I was a little too hasty to call it regurgitation. Still, I do find the album too formulaic and predictable.
I have no problem drawing from the classics and I would point out WiitTR obviously are heavily inspired by In the Woods, early Opeth and Burzum. Liturgy obviously have a lot of Emperor in their sound with all the neo-Romantic riffs. Everyone is drawing from someone else, the question is can you create something that is your own.