it is a love song : “If you think of all the things being presented, you realize they’re all gifts from a lover to a woman. Some of them are rather impossible to give, like eight maids a milking and nine ladies dancing. All those ladies and dancing...
It starts like a Metallica metal power ballad, then the militant drum roll kicks in. Suddenly, “Bartzabel” gets mean, with tremolo guitars and occult-themed lyrics: “O Purple flame!/ O whirling wheel ov life!” Yup, Nergal is back in hell-praising glory only he’s wearing different s...