I think it says a lot about just how completely spoiled for choice the average metal fan was back in 1997 that this absolute masterpiece kinda got lost in the sauce... Still one of my favorite melodic DM albums EVER, even all these years later.
Makes me wish it was November, and raining.
TBDM were never my favorite band on earth, but, after many years of seeing them on shows with bands I liked and hearing their music mature with each new album I really started to dig them and came to respect their position as one of those bands that kinda "holds the door open" for younger folks taking their first steps into extreme music.
Sad to hear of their singer's passing, from all the accounts I've read over the past 24 hours it seems like he was a really good guy. The scene and the world need more people like that. RIP.
I never really kept up with Hypocrisy after their first two or three albums... Well, that is until today when I picked up a bunch of their later stuff and realized it's all pretty fucking great.
"A Taste of Extreme Divinity" especially is pure fucking gold from start to finish.
New thing from one of the guitar players of my favorite local band back when I was in high school... Sounds pretty much exactly how you'd want/ expect ie: A total riff-fest, equal parts Dismember, Seance, Nihilist, etc. With killer raspy vocals and melodies ala Sacrilege (SWE).
