![]() ![]() Then a song theat highlights the opus of the album is "Elizabeth Bathory." A song that fully pays tribute to the Hungarian blood countess who to this day reigns enthroned as the most evil woman in the world in all of criminology. but the the blast beats and shredding guitars return in the next song "Heaven" which is nothing but ruthless blast beating drums and ever so speedy guitar riffs and solos. The guitar solo is awesome and becomes very extreme and only gets faster as the song continues. Sathanas." And to add on his death shrieaking, death growling, and tortured screams perfectly go with the band as a whole. By the way, on this album the lead singer is Attila Cshnir, Who would then be the lead vocalist for the Norwegian black metal band Mayhem on their album "De mysteriis Dom. Its fast, brutal, and mindlessly ferocious beyond belief!! The drums blast themselves to smitherines and the guitar riff shreds like crazy. The album starts off with an intro that is basically an instrumental track that acts as a metal cover to the theme music of the classic horror film "Phantasm." After a short time it ends it goes to the song "Tormentor I" which in my opinion is the greatest song on the album. Now this album is full of wonders and ruthlessly fast paced music so brutal it could turn your ears into masochists that year for the brutality to return again and again. It goes to key names like Bathory, Celtic Frost, Sodom, Sarcofago, etc. It is probably one of the greatest first wave of black metal albums in the 80s. But tuely this album is awesome and gives so much more than one can imagine for its time. The band could not release this in their own country due to communism not allowing it so it was sent to Norway to be released as so with the previous demo "The Seventh Day of Doom." It gained massive cult status in Norway and thus got the band marked in the scene. This Album, Anno Domini, (which can be loosely translated as "year domains" in Latin) was a demo tape that was relaesed by the Hungarian band Tormentor. Likewise, "Beyond" maintains a slow chugging pace, and the eerie choral sounds in the background take the song to the next level.įor a group of teenagers without the ability to put out an album, "Anno Domini" is a true black metal classic, and deserves your listen. "Elizabeth Bathory," Tormentor's most iconic song, never goes beyond a mid tempo crawl, but this works to the band's advantage, letting the musical air out a bit, and with the use of some clean guitar sections, you've got yourself a black metal classic. The vocals are easily one of the strongest parts of this album, and succeed in making the music sound genuinely evil and misanthropic.Īlthough most of the album carries on at a breakneck pace, some of the best moments are when the band brings the tempo down a notch. Attila's screams are fantastic, and are a key part of what makes Tormentor sound ahead of their time, building upon singers like Quorthon to develop a more extreme style. The main riff is both drilling and catchy, the drums carry loads of aggression, and there's even a guitar harmony section that calls to mind bands like Iron Maiden. The song "Tormentor I" pretty much sums up everything there is to love about the album. The solos tend to be pretty unhinged and wild, but bits of melody often peak through and give them a more traditional feel, like on the instrumental piece "Lyssa," which is built around eerie guitar melodies and flashy soloing. There's none of Venom's sleazy, alcohol-sodden charm, this is a whole other beast. Like many other first wave bands, Tormentor's riffing style has a thrashy style, but they have a more atmospheric sound than most, playing wildly dissonant strings of notes at the end of a riff to illustrate the chaotic scenes that Attila Csihar shrieks about. "Anno Domini," their 1989 demo that was didn't end up being officially released as an album, is a product of its time in that it sounds like a bridge between the disparate styles of the first wave of black metal, and the more extreme second wave sound that has become synonymous with the genre. Maybe it's the recording style, maybe it's the music, but there's something about them that puts them ahead of the pack. Tormentor, on the other hand, is a band that carries an aura of genuine menace and darkness around them. So many of them just end up sounding campy, regardless of the how good their music might be. While black metal is a musical style that is often built around trying to sound as evil as possible, there's not many bands that truly feel that evil.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |