IMMORTAL - Damned In Black LP (RED).

“Damned In Black” is the furthest from the traditional Black Metal style of all of Immortal’s releases. Like most great bands that manage to last longer than a small handful of studio albums, they were never content to stick to one specific formula and have spliced in an array of other Metal sub-genres into their now somewhat clichéd blackened imagery and storytelling. In essence, Abbath and company have traded in the Viking era Bathory and Manowar tendencies for something that maintains the Teutonic Thrash elements of their newer sound, while also evolving them a little bit into something similar to the proto-Death/ Thrash of Slayer, alongside the atmospheric character of Morbid Angel and the melodically consonant riffing style of Death. Each song has an individual charm that is distinct from the next, invoking a wide array of past classics and merging them with Immortal’s own characteristic sound.

Immortal never published bad albums, even if they passed through different kinds of extreme Metal, and with this Damned In Black they present us another strong effort, this time more obscure than in the past, filling their sound with Thrash/ Death Metal influences too.

Reissue from OSMOSE PRODUCTIONS 2024 limited to 500 copies on cherry red eco vinyl 12" (180g), gatefold cover, full-color on 350g + 3D UV SPOT. All assembled in a PVC overbag.