IMMORTAL — Blizzard Beasts (review)

IMMORTAL — Blizzard Beasts album cover Album · 1997 · Black Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
3.5/5 ·
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The fourth Immortal album Blizzard Beasts brought the band's line-up back up to three strong with the addition of Horgh on drums. This was the final album though to feature guitarist Demonaz as he was forced to step down due to an RSI injury that left him unable to play Immortal's music. He stayed on as lyricist and manager though.

Blizzard Beasts is the album where Immortal started to experiment a bit with ideas outside of the black metal genre. There's a noticeable death metal element to the album that wasn't present on the three previous albums or on anything that followed this one, making Blizzard Beasts one of the most unique entries in the Immortal discography. Unfortunately it is also a much weaker one than the prior Battles in the North which I consider the best they'd done up until this point. It's an album that's grown on me a fair bit over the years though so if anything I'd call this an underrated release from them. With that said the songs aren't always as powerful sounding as they could be, though neither are they as indistinct from each other as those found on the first two albums. The sound production is I think technically better but some of the atmosphere of older material was lost in the process.

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