Title: Pleasantly surpised!
Review: Ironically, I found this CD on clearance while killing time with some friends before going to see the black metal documentary "Until the Light Takes us". I'm an elderly 39 year-old who grew up on Celtic Frost & Slayer, but, admittedly, not very big on the modern black metal scene other than some laughable videos on youtube. Needless to say, I was expecting the worse (especially from the cheesy cover image), so when I popped this into my truck's CD player, I was pleasantly surprised that it was actually a damn good thrash/death metal album and lacked a lot of excessive symphonic goofy-ness of some of the bands in the genre. Plus, it seems these guys appear to steer away from being overtly satanic & just stick to "we're-vikings-kicking-ass-in-a-snowstorm" kind of themes.
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