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| Artist..: Judas Iscariot |
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| Album...: The Cold Earth Slept Below... |
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| Genre...: Black Metal | Label...: Moribund Records |
| Year....: 1996 | Cat.No..: |
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| R.date..: 2023-06-24 | S.date..: 1996-00-00 |
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| Source..: WEB (16bit) | Encoder.: libFLAC |
| Bitrate.: 952 kbps avg. | F.Rate..: 44.1kHz |
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| http://deezer.com/album/208963 |
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| Disc 1 / 1 |
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| 01. Damned Below Judas 5:23 |
| 02. Wrath 0:26 |
| 03. Babylon 6:33 |
| 04. The Cold Earth Slept Below 5:08 |
| 05. Midnight Frost 4:05 |
| 06. Ye Blessed Creatures 4:59 |
| 07. Reign 3:20 |
| 08. Fidelity 4:23 |
| 09. Nietzsche 9:32 |
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| (313.24MB) 00:43:49 |
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| This might just have the spot as my favorite black metal album. In 1995 |
| Akhenaten created this masterpiece of dark, cryptic, totally nihilistic |
| metal art. If you ask me what black metal is, or what USBM is, I'll point |
| you straight to The Cold Earth Slept Below. This is the ultimate example |
| of the grimness, melody, and attitude that a black metal album should |
| have: moments of sheer cold fucking aggression, and moments of sorrowful |
| melodies. |
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| The highlights of this album are the best place to start. When I first got |
| this album, I dismissed it because I thought it sounded too much like |
| Darkthrone, and I was frankly tired of hearing bands like that. There were |
| a few songs in particular, and a few parts that had me listening again and |
| again, and these Darkthrone-ish songs became entirely Judas Iscariot. Go |
| to Babylon, track three. This song has some badass riffs, but skip |
| straight to 2:30. Holy shit. That is black fucking metal. The defining |
| riff of black metal for me. I'm not entirely sure any other band plays it |
| like that. Akhenaten could have thrown in a few "UGH!"s for emphasis and |
| it wouldn't have sounded corny at all. Another maximum highlight of The |
| Cold Earth Slept Below is the title track! There's only about three riffs |
| I think, but the melody and atmosphere of the two main riffs is really |
| well done. The other guys who enjoyed this album said that Nietzsche was |
| too long, but if you ask me it's just as much a highlight in its length as |
| those I already mentioned. I think that a good long, repetitive song like |
| this closes out an album very well. The main riff is very grim, almost |
| doomy with lots of bending. It gives you time to appreciate The Cold Earth |
| Slept Below, and the vocals are alot easier to hear. "She feeds upon his |
| shrieks and cries, and grows stronger as he grows oldddd". |
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| The real glory in this album lies in Akhenaten's own abilities. His vocals |
| are second only to Nocturno Culto in my opinion. Grim is a word said alot |
| in a black metal review, but hell, is Akhenaten ever grim. Growling, evil |
| fucking vocals accent this music so well. Thin guitar with plenty of buzzy |
| and some doomy melodies only make it better. Bass is hard to hear, and his |
| drumming is sloppy as it gets, but I think that his drumming adds so much |
| more feeling to the music. Finally, the end of the album is the coolest of |
| any black metal album ever. "She lays him down upon the rock, and all is |
| done, as I have tollllD." Doesn't get anymore black metal. Buy it. |
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