RESURRECTIONS

albums emerged in 1994, a pivotal time for Norwegian black metal.   still feels like the scene’s wide-eyed little brother, all haphazard arrangements and weedy guitars. Some atmospheric folk passages and  was more confident and assured – a textbook document of its magical era, with Satyr’s eccentricities coming to the fore on these Napalm reissues. Five years later Birmingham got hold of black metal, and roughed it up with a drum machine, frenzied soloing and psychotic attitude. Result: ’s demo compilation  . Their subsequent debut,   (both Metal Blade), edged the duo’s vicious cacophony closer to industrial and grindcore, for a perfect storm of anti-social sonic terror.