Immortal (Immortal EP)
Occupation
- Vocals, electric bass: Abbath
- Electric Guitar: Demonaz
- Drums: Armagedda
Immortal is the first EP by the Norwegian metal band Immortal.
Formation
After the founding of a Death Metal band and the release of the demos The Northern Upins Death and Suffocate the French label Listenable Records showed interest in the publication of a 7 " single by Immortal. Under the influence of Euronymous (Mayhem ) turned the band Black Metal to. 1991, the two new songs Unholy Forces of Evil and the Cold Winds of Funeral Frost were written and recorded with Pytten as a sound engineer.
Title list
Music and lyrics
Diabolical Fullmoon Mysticism (intro) is an atmospheric intro that starts with industrial -like noise then flows in a drum in which is still played after the onset of the keyboard barely. In this sound finally add a underlaid with reverberation screams.
The actual songs are very similar to Bathory and vary largely between medium and low speed. The music is raw and produced with a dull percussion sound.
Unholy Forces of Evil is dark, blasphemous rites, where live sacrifices are 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 by northern mountains and valleys. After almost three minutes is an instrumental, through fast passage to hear, which is hidden by fadeout.
Shaping
The records cover shows Immortals lettering, the back of a black and white picture of the band and the title list, instructions on recording and Demonaz ' contact information.
Reissues
The Cold Winds of Funeral Frost was revised and released in 1992 on the debut album Diabolical Fullmoon Mysticism, as well as Unholy Forces of Evil. The songs of the EP were 1996 re-released on the limited edition version of Battles in the North 2000 were the songs of Immortals EP together with the also out of print singles and EPs As the Shadows Rise ( Emperor ), Inn i evighetens mørke ( Dimmu Borgir ), My Angel ( Arcturus ) and Det Glemte Riket ( Ancient ) of Spikefarm Records under the title True Kings of Norway.
Reviews
Wolf -Rüdiger Mühlmann from Rock Hard designated Unholy Forces of Evil as " God number ", the " cult of the Nordic Black doctrine " belongs together with the intro. The band had " made immortal from the beginning - despite muddy sound " with this EP. Fenriz of Darkthrone Immortal is one of the publications, " which constituted the true Black Metal sound."