Manilla Road - Masque of the Red Death
9/10
It begins with what sounds like a doorbell ringing, but once you answer the door, you are greeted with some thrashy yet epic heavy metal which is easily one of the highlights of that album.
Colosseum - Aesthetics of the Grotesque
9/10
This is everything that funeral doom should be: a slow build up, a vast oppressive sound, but with a certain majesty to its crushing despair.
Satyrasis - The Imp of the Perverse
5/10
The overbearing sterility of this makes it very difficult to like.
Immortal – The Call of the Wintermoon
8.5/10
It's an infamously silly music video, but the song itself is a solid slab of grim and frostbitten black metal.
Enforcer – Scream of the Savage
6.5/10
This is a rather generic song, and the way it utilizes that bog standard VI-VII-i chord progression in both verse and chorus accentuates that.
Saritap - Tower of the Black Moon
8/10
A good ritualistic black metal song with a fairly distinct sound.
Death Breath – Coffins of the Unembalmed Dead
6.5/10
Would be a lot better if the vocals had more character.
Abbath - Root of the Mountain
7.5/10
Decent but unexceptional.