7/06/05

ANCIENT / NIGHT VISIT

This is how Black Metal should be, dark, menacing, brooding with a haunted quality to it, like a sirens call, drawing you ever onward to your certain doom but somehow you don’t care because your enjoying it.

It’s been a long while sine Proxima Centauri but the wait has bee worth it, Deadly Kristin is no longer a full time member of the band bund but does make an appearance on a couple of tracks and no doubt will continue to pop up on occasions. The guitar work is superb and makes the songs sound like they are possessed and the mix of traditional Black Metal sound coupled with the occasional orchestration helps the band rise above the competition. All in all this is another great Ancient CD and as essential a purchase as the Halls Of Eternity.

The digipack version has 2 extra tracks that are instrumental and best described as Black Ambient and a video of "Night Visit".

Best tracks; "The Rape Of The Children Of Abel", "Truth Unveiled", "Lycanthropy" and "Night Visit"

DOWNLOAD : "The Rape Of The Children Of Abel" from either site above

TOTAL PLAYING TIME = 48 mins + 10 TRACKS + CD ROM