IMMORTAL — Battles in the North (review)

IMMORTAL — Battles in the North album cover Album · 1995 · Black Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
5/5 ·
666sharon666
On the surface the third Immortal album Battles in the North is a messy affair. Apparently when it was first released in 1995 reviewers hated the original production job so much that the band went and hastily changed it after the first pressing. Considering the rawness of Immortal's black metal music and how raw the album as it sounds on my copy (which is marked as a 1997 reissue), that original mix must have been pretty bad. Also the printing of physical copies even today as far as I know contain a mixed up track listing (mine certainly does).

Battles in the North is however the point where I think the band really made their mark. The songs on this one are more distinct from each other and to date the album still contains some of their best work such as the title track and Blashyrkh (Mighty Ravendark). I think that Abbath has developed a more distinctive vocal style by this point too, which helps a lot. Like the two previous albums it's not a long release, totalling at about thirty-five minutes, which proves just enough for the album to make it's point. Though Battles in the North hasn't retained as high a regard over the years as Pure Holocaust it's easily my third favourite Immortal album and represents a massive jump in quality as far as I'm concerned.

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