Immortal (EP)
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Publication |
1991 |
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| Label (s) | Osmose Productions , Listenable Records | |||
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Format (s) |
7 " |
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Title (number) |
3 |
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running time |
8:50 |
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Pytten and Immortal |
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Studio (s) |
Sony PLM 2500 |
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Immortal is the first EP from the Norwegian metal band Immortal .
Emergence
After the formation as a death metal band and the release of the demos The Northern Upins Death and Suffocate , the French record company Listenable Records showed interest in the release of a 7 "single from Immortal. Under the influence of Euronymous ( Mayhem ) the band turned the Black Metal to. In 1991, the two new songs were Unholy Forces of Evil and the Cold Winds of Funeral frost wrote and recorded with Pytten as a sound engineer.
Track list
- Diabolical Fullmoon Mysticism (intro) - 0:42
- Unholy Forces of Evil - 4:28
- The Cold Winds of Funeral Frost - 3:40
Music and lyrics
Diabolical Fullmoon Mysticism (intro) is an atmospheric intro that begins with industrial- like noise, followed by drums that are hardly played after the keyboard has been inserted. Finally, screams with reverberation are inserted into this sound .
The actual songs are heavily based on Bathory and mostly vary between medium and low tempo. The music is raw and produced with a dull drum sound.
Unholy Forces of Evil is about dark, blasphemous rites, where live sacrifices to be offered and demons are present in the flames.
In The Cold Winds of Funeral Frost , the protagonist marches in search of eternity under a blood-red moon in fog and cold through Nordic mountains and valleys. After almost 3 minutes you can hear an instrumental, consistently fast passage that is faded out by means of a fadeout .
layout
The record cover shows Immortal's lettering, the back a black and white picture of the band as well as the track list, information about the recording and Demonaz's contact address.
Re-releases
The Cold Winds of Funeral Frost was reworked and appeared on the debut album Diabolical Fullmoon Mysticism in 1992 , as did Unholy Forces of Evil . The songs from the EP were re-released in 1996 on the limited version of Battles in the North . In 2000, the songs from Immortals EP along with the singles and EPs As the Shadows Rise ( Emperor ), Inn i evighetens mørke ( Dimmu Borgir ), My Angel, also out of print ( Arcturus ) and Det glemte riket ( Ancient ) released by Spikefarm Records under the title True Kings of Norway .
Reviews
Wolf-Rüdiger Mühlmann from Rock Hard called Unholy Forces of Evil a “god number”, which, together with the intro, belongs to “the cult of the Nordic black doctrine”. With this EP, the band "made themselves immortal right from the start - despite muddy sounds". Fenriz von Darkthrone counts Immortal to the releases "that made the real black metal sound".
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b BIOGRAPHY - 90-92 ( Memento from August 20, 2001 in the Internet Archive ).
- ^ "A lot of the guys in Immortal and Dark Throne [sic!] Were all into normal Death Metal and Euronymous showed them what Black Metal was really like, how things should be, and they followed him. Looking at the first Dark Throne album compared to the second, you can see Euronymous' influence on the second one, A Blaze in the Northern Sky . That's the first Norwegian Black Metal album after Deathcrush which was really big and an influence on the rest of the scene. Then followed Immortal, which was a Death Metal band who changed toward Black Metal, also under the influence of Euronymous. Even if they don't admit it, it's the truth. [...] The whole Norwegian scene is based on Euronymous and his testimony from his shop. [...] He was always telling what he thought, following his own instincts to the true Black Metal stuff like corpsepaint and spikes, worshiping death and being extreme. " Michael Moynihan , Didrik Søderlind: Lords of Chaos , First Edition, Feral House 1998, ISBN 0-922915-48-2 , p. 39.
- ↑ DISCOGRAPHY ( Memento from August 18, 2001 in the Internet Archive ).
- ↑ Wolf-Rüdiger Mühlmann: VARIOUS ARTISTS . True Kings Of Norway . In: Rock Hard , No. 159.
- ↑ SirLordDoom: Interview with Fenriz ( Memento of the original from November 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .
