Entirely possible that this is my favorite metal album of all time. The slow, grinding, doom metal riffs are among the best I've ever heard. The epic gloriousness rouses the blood and makes one wish that they had just bought that damn broadsword rather than pay their rent. And the vocals are just the right mix of raw and clean. RIP Quorthon...even if you were a racist prick.
Edit: As much as people go on about how Blood, Fire, Death was the forerunner of Hammerheart I think that's nonsense. Under the Sign of the Black Mark was the true point of departure.I mean just listen to this and tell me that Hammerheart wasn't around the corner. Quorthon was just too scared to go all the way and make such a drastic departure at that time.
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Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien
There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.
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Last edited by The Batlord; 10-16-2013 at 05:26 PM.
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