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If I hadn't heard of it, how can it be a classic?

I am embarrassed to say I haven't heard this, thank you for reminding me I damn well need to do so.

But I am confused to your comments regarding this 'ushering in the second wave'. It was released in 1996, no?

I've never heard of this either, and apparently not many people have. But if it was that influencial I must have a listen.

The 2nd wave of Black Metal was dying in 1996 . . .

Melodic black metal? Hmmm I don't know if I even want to check this out.

I would imagine it's more on the side of Vinterland/Dissection/Sacramentum than that of Dimmu Borgir.

That's what he said but still doesn't make it any better.

Sacramentum's 'Far Away from The Sun' is actually very good, trapt. You are welcome to try it, if you haven't heard.

thank god this was reviewed

I have; it's good but the Dissection comparisons just makes me so not interested. I'm sure this is a great album but I can't imagine it being just sooooo so innovative. Now I'm saying stuff that people are going to start hounding me for since I haven't actually listened to this.

Well, neither have I. But hell, even ANUS approves to some degree.

What's wrong with Dissection-esque Metal anyways?

Not seeing how this is a classic.
Good album, unique for the genre, even, but...

For all those who are wary because of the Dissection reference: I am not musically comparing Kvist to Dissection, just saying that those 2 are the big 2 in the early Melodic Black Metal scene, albeit from different nations.

lol

Gets bland after a while.

V says it's decent; it doesn't sound like Dissection. I think I just have to much other bm to get into right now.

I was gonna say that!

That's some shitty reasoning, unless it's a joke. By that standard, how could any metal album be a classic in a universal perspective, except the Black Sabbaths and Iron maidens?

Not shitty reasoning. Simply from my own perspective as someone who has listened to a lot of shit and just simply heard of a lot more stuff, the fact that I had never even heard of the band let alone the album implies that it couldn't be all that well known. Surely, I would have come across it by now as either someone's influence or in some list of underrated gems. But nope. It sounds rather pompous, but it's just a simple recognition that I know quite a bit about metal and expect to know classics at least by name when they are posted here.

This is a good record, potentially classic.