genre-defining album, 'Beneath the Remains.' The result was 'Arise,' an exercise in the signature thrashing style they had pioneered, mixed with stronger hints of melody and a sense of groove that hinted at the new direction they would later take. "...
The grim and frostbitten kings took a relentless approach to their evolving black metal style on ‘Pure Holocaust,’ assaulting the genre with “The Sun No Longer Rises” and the indomitable riffs found in “Unsilent Storms in the North Abyss” and “As the Eternity Opens.” Frontman Abbath...