BLACK CRUCIFIXION

The Fallen One of Flames

Paragon
rating icon 8 / 10

Track listing:

01. Intro
02. Flowing Downwards
03. Master Spirit
04. Goddess of Doom
05. Outro


Here's a little history lesson, courtesy of the kult-hounds over at Paragon (CHARNEL VALLEY, the torturous RIGOR SARDONICUS). Recorded in the winter of 1991-92 in the Arctic darkness of northern Finland, this demo captures a real sense of the haunting atmosphere black metal was originally meant to invoke, without sounding like a textbook clone of those better-known pioneers who were coming along at the same time. "Flowing Downwards" has an almost lilting, avant-garde feel to it, despite its utter primitivism — it never strays from a slower tempo, and its whispered vocals are almost subconsciously heard. The other tracks employ some of that early trashcan-down-the-steps blast beat and primeval riffing, but still give off the chilled, misty vibe of winter and darkness.

BLACK CRUCIFIXION played their first show with IMPALED NAZARENE and were cohorts with BEHERIT — this is the real deal here, from people who were in the scene as it developed. The liner notes are informative and, for once, refreshingly realistic, not full of pretentious otherworldly elite-speak and mystical bullshit. "The Fallen One of Flames" is a worthy document of its time, and fourteen years later, it still retains a powerful aura that many of its more commercially-successful descendants could never claim. Primitive, meditative black metal formed from the primal ooze of the genre.

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