Massive Terrestrial Strike

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Massive Terrestrial Strike
Studio album by Urgehal

Publication
(s)

1998

Label (s) No Colors Records

Genre (s)

Black metal

Title (number)

7th

running time

36:43

occupation
  • Electric bass: Chiron
  • Drums: Uruz
  • Guitar: Enzifer
  • Lead guitar, vocals: Trondr Nefas
chronology
Arma Christi
(1997) 		Massive Terrestrial Strike Atomic Children
(2001)

Massive Terrestrial Strike is the second album by the Norwegian band Urgehal .

Track list

  1. The Sodomizer - 4:45 (text and music: Trondr)
  2. The Saturnine Denomination - 4:59 (Text: Seculariser; Music: Trondr)
  3. Supreme Evil - 6:49 (Text: Chiron; Music: Enzifer, Trondr)
  4. Image of the Horned King - 5:40 (text and music: Trondr)
  5. Tellus Død / Armageddons Svøpe - 2:02 (Text: Aradia; Music: Trondr)
  6. Apocalyptic Destruction - 6:41 (text and music: Enzifer)
  7. Flames of Black Candles - 5:47

The LP version contains the bonus title Nyx (text: Enzifer; music: Enzifer, T. Nefas).

Music style and lyrics

The sound is based on that typical of Norwegian Black Metal. The lyrics deal with sadism and anal intercourse ( The Sodomizer ), the fight against Christians ( The Saturnine Denomination , Supreme Evil , Flames of Black Candles ), sexualised violence against them ( Supreme Evil ), Satan ( Image of the Horned King ), the Apocalypse ( Tellus Død / Armageddons Svøpe ) and a hypothetical destruction of the earth by a meteor ( Apocalyptic Destruction ).

Reviews

Martin Wickler wrote in his review in the Metal Hammer , "After I remembered some older products from No Colors in terms of sound, Urgehal surprised me quite positively." Here, "the focus is not on black metallic noise cascades", instead rock the album “neat, not with the force of an asteroid impact, but still convincing”. He was particularly fond of Image of the Horned King : the other six tracks “can also be heard, except for one or two slip-ups such as the unsightly, stifled ending of 'Saturnine'. Spit over the thumb clearly outweighs the positive features, insofar as a recommendable black disc with that certain something to stand out from the flood of releases. "The side Norsk Svart Metall described the album as the high point of the band, whereby Through Thick Fog Till Death came close to him, take second place.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b A History Of Norwegian Black Metal ( Memento from July 11, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on February 28, 2013.
  2. ↑ Martin Wickler: Urgehal . Massive Terrestrial Strike . In: Metal Hammer , December 1998, p. 86.