Saturday, May 12, 2012

Viking Crown/Innocence From Hell/Baphomet Records/2000 CD Review


  Viking  Crown  where  a  band  from  New  Orleans,  Louisiana  that  consists  of  veterans  from  both  the  mainstream  and  underground  metal  scenes  with  a  musical  style  that  I  would  describe  as  being  raw  and  primitive  sounding  atmospheric  satanic  black  metal  and  this  is  a  review  of their  2000  album  "Innocence  From  Hell"  which  was  released  by  Baphomet  Records.

  Drums  range  from  slow,  mid  paced  to  fast  drumming  with  some  blast  beats  being  thrown  into  the  music  at  times  along  with  a  brief  use  of  tribal  and  ritualistic  drumming  being  utilized  on  one  song,  while  the  keyboards  bring  a  very  dark,  atmospheric,  ambient and ritualistic  sound  to the  music,  as  for  the  bass  playing  it  has  a  very  dark  tone  with  riffs  that  follow  the  riffing  that  is  coming out of  the  guitars.

  Rhythm  guitars  range  from slow,  mid  paced  to  fast  black  metal  riffs  that  are  very  dark,  raw  and  primitive  sounding  in  the  early  90's  vein,  while  the  lead  guitars  are  very  chaotic  sounding  black  metal  guitar  solos  and  leads.

  Vocals  are  mostly  grim  sounding  and  high  pitched  black  metal screams  with  some  spoken  word  ritualistic  parts  being  thrown  into  the  music  at  times  as  well  as  some  deep growls  in  addition  there  is  a  brief  use  of  chanting  being  utilized  on  one  song,  while  the  lyrics  cover  Satanism  and  Devil  Worship,  as  for  the  production  it  has  a  very  dark,  raw  and  primitive  sound  to  it.

  In  my  opinion  Viking  Crown  where  a  very  great  sounding  raw  and  primitive  atmospheric  satanic/black  metal  band  and  while  a lot  of  people  never  gave  this  band  a  chance  because  one  of  the  members  played  in  a  mainstream  band,  I  still  thought  the  music  was  very  good  and  underrated  and  if  you  are  looking  for  some  that  is  very  evil,  check  out  this  album.  RECOMMENDED  TRACKS  INCLUDE  "Innocence  From  Hell"  "The Red  Flames  Of  Sin"  "The  Long  And  Mighty  Reign  Of  Satan"  and  "Raped  By  An  Angel".  RECOMMENDED  BUY.

https://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Viking_Crown/5205

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