Music reviews #2

Immortal „Northern Chaos Gods”
Nearly 20 years ago I heard for the first time a blasted storm under the sign "Battles In The North". I already knew then that Immortal would become my favorite hordes from the spot. With time, however, tastes changed and the warriors from Blashyrkh went far away. Years have passed but sentiment remains.
So I didn't believe frankly saying that after the legal-personal turmoil something called Immortal would ever come out. Meanwhile, Demonaz clasped his ass, cured his paw, won the spider's right to the name and recorded an album that perfectly summed up almost three decades of the band's existence.
One thing is certain: the core of the music remained intact. We are still dealing with snowy black metal, immersed in a bit of fairy-tale, exaggerated setting. It doesn't avoid storms full of blasts and lofty, epic slowdowns. And this is the power of "Northern Chaos Gods". Well-known riffs, which have been melted anew, resound as powerful as before, blowing with the freezing wind straight from the north. There is something from the sublime, epic to the limits of possibility, "At The Heart Of Winter" (the beginning in "Where Mountains Rise" or the closing album "Mighty Ravendark") but also from the storm under the sign "Blizzard Beast" or purely black metal cold under the sign "Damned in Black". There was no shortage of characteristic vocals, although not abbathic anymore, but still rough or even rough. All these ingredients made it impossible to get attached to "Northern Chaos Gods", and the fact that the album draws on the legacy of Immortal does not rule out its existence in the discography of the northern beast. On the contrary, it gives the band new life and the listener an almost nostalgic journey into the band's musical past.