Possessed's Seven Churches was the first death metal album I ever heard, but Altars of Madness was the first DM album I ever liked. Even today, it still seems strange to me that blast beats are considered a fixture of grindcore and not so much death metal, cause that album was chock full of, and probably the first time I'd ever heard them. It always makes me happy to hear a death metal album with blast beats, just cause it feels... right.
Pretty much everything that I hear in any death metal album I compare to this album, it is so influential to my idea of what the genre is. As it should be. The main riff to this song was actually my ringtone until I took pity upon the losers around me. I might actually change it back right now out of spite.
And of course, forever until the end of time... Altars of Madness > Covenant
Edit: OMFG this ****ing song!!! God I love this album!
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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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