At the Heart of Winter

Current logo of the band (since 1999)

At the Heart of Winter
Studio album from Immortal
Publication (s)	February 28, 1999
admission	November 1998
Label (s)	Osmosis Productions
Format (s)	CD, LP
Genre (s)	Extreme metal , heavy metal
Title (number)	6th
running time	46:14
occupation	Olve "Abbath Doom Occulta" Eikemo - guitar , bass , synthesizer , vocals Reidar "Horgh" Horghagen - drums Harald "Demonaz Doom Occulta" Nævdal - texts
production	Peter Tagtgren & Immortal
Studio (s)	Abyss Studio
chronology Blizzard Beasts 1997 At the Heart of Winter Damned in Black 2000

At the Heart of Winter is the fifth studio album by the Norwegian extreme metal band Immortal . It is the first album without guitarist Demonaz, who suffered incurable tendinitis in 1997 . It is also the first release with the new Immortal logo. Some CDs are incorrectly printed with At the Heat of Winter .

Emergence

After Demonaz's tendonitis made it impossible for him to continue playing guitar, Abbath took over the guitar and bass tracks for the album. Demonaz continued to write the lyrics and also took care of the management. Abbath wrote the music and worked with Horgh to arrange it. At the Heart of Winter was recorded in Sweden in November 1998 at Peter Tägegren's Abyss Studio .

Style and content

Compared to its predecessor Blizzard Beasts , which was almost exclusively based on blastbeats , At the Heart of Winter is a "departure from pure-bred frenzy to more compact and complex compositions" with increased influences from classic heavy metal and a better production. Stylistically, the album has little in common with Norwegian Black Metal.

reception

Wolf-Rüdiger Mühlmann from Rock Hard described the album as “an optimally balanced mixture of ICE speed […] and muscular mid-tempo breakers” and as “a sorely needed record, an impressive lesson for the primal power of Norwegian Black Metal. This album is pure, dark violence. "

Track list

1. Withstand the Fall of Time - 8:31 am
2. Solar Fall - 6:04
3. Tragedies Blows at Horizon - 8:57
4. Where Dark and Light Don't Differ - 6:47
5. At the Heart of Winter - 8:02 am
6. Years of Silent Sorrow - 7:53

Individual evidence

1. ↑ At The Heart Of Winter by IMMORTAL. Nuclear Blast , accessed March 22, 2017 . 
2. ↑ Troll: IMMORTAL INTERVIEW - METALKINGS.COM. Retrieved February 22, 2010 . 
3. ^ Markus Eck: The solemn triumph of hatred. April 11, 2000, accessed March 22, 2010 . 
4. ↑ Wolf-Rüdiger Mühlmann: Rock Hard Online rocks the web. Retrieved March 25, 2010 .