Paul Allender wrote:
On the idea that the band now have almost nothing in common with traditional black metal, Allender told Terrorizer, "Everyone's gonna hate me for saying this, but I didn't think we had in the first place. The only thing that catered to that was the make-up. That's it. People say, 'Blah blah, sellouts, not true black metal,' but we were never a black metal band in the first place. Even when 'The Principle of Evil Made Flesh' [1994] came out — you look at EMPEROR and BURZUM and all that stuff — we didn't sound nothing like that. The way that I see it is that we were, and still are now, an extreme heavy metal band."
Yup. That's what I've been saying all along. So if anyone still hates them for being vntrve and sellouts: in your face. They were never black metal to begin with.
I can't wait for the new album. Here's the cover:
