TEMPLE OF BAAL — Verses of Fire (review)

TEMPLE OF BAAL — Verses of Fire album cover Album · 2013 · Black Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
4/5 ·
Kev Rowland
In their 15 year-long career, marked by 3 full lengths and numerous split releases, highly respected French trio Temple Of Baal have evolved from a traditional Norwegian style primitive Black/Thrash act to one that is generating uncompromising Black/Death Metal of wonderful brutality. ‘Verses Of Fire’ combines both their relentless violent face with darkest atmosphere and the result is something that is completely over the top, bringing together the best of both Death and Black Metal into an unholy union. Produced by Andrew Guillotin (Glorior Belli) in Hybreed Studios, he has concentrated on capturing an organic sound whose warmth is quite at odds with the frostiness of the music being generated. One of the highest praises I can bestow on this is that no-one playing this would ever imagine that these guys are French, as it seems as if they grew up in the same woods as Darkthrone.

This is not music of 2013, but rather they have taken what was coming out 20 years ago, added more brutality and much better production and have created something that straddles multiple musical camps, without compromising at all. Powerful and brutal, this has a great deal going for it.
Share this review
more

Review Comments

Post a public comment below | Send private message to the reviewer
Please login to post a shout
No shouts posted yet. Be the first member to do so above!

Review Index

Member Zone

Username:
Password:
Stay signed in

Metal Subgenres

Artists Alpha-index

MMA TOP 5 Metal ALBUMS

Rating by members, ranked by custom algorithm
Albums with 30 ratings and more
Master of Puppets Thrash Metal
METALLICA
Buy this album from our partners
Paranoid Heavy Metal
BLACK SABBATH
Buy this album from our partners
Moving Pictures Hard Rock
RUSH
Buy this album from our partners
Powerslave NWoBHM
IRON MAIDEN
Buy this album from our partners
Rising Heavy Metal
RAINBOW
Buy this album from our partners

New Metal Artists

New Metal Releases

Human Rosin Melodic Metalcore
HATE BREEDER
Buy this album from MMA partners
Through The Hell Hardcore Punk
ENEMY 906
Buy this album from MMA partners
Lightmatter: Rebirth Deathcore
EARTHGAZER
Buy this album from MMA partners
Eye Of Horus (Lightmatter EP Pt. 2) Deathcore
EARTHGAZER
Buy this album from MMA partners
Galaxy888 (Lightmatter EP Pt. 1) Deathcore
EARTHGAZER
Buy this album from MMA partners
More new releases

New Metal Online Videos

Agremorta - Adrocitas (Official Lyric Video)
AGREMORTA
Bosh66· 3 days ago
Agremorta - Ploratus Umbra (Official Lyric Video)
AGREMORTA
Bosh66· 3 days ago
Agremorta - Vertex Membrana (Official Lyric Video)
AGREMORTA
Bosh66· 3 days ago
HAIL SPIRIT NOIR - The Temple Of Curved Space (Official Track Stream)
HAIL SPIRIT NOIR
adg211288· 3 days ago
In Sulfur - The Gate (OFFICIAL VIDEO) 2022
IN SULFUR
Bosh66· 4 days ago
More videos

New MMA Metal Forum Topics

More in the forums

New Site interactions

More...

Latest Metal News

members-submitted

More in the forums

Social Media

Follow us
Follow us on Twitter Become a Facebook fan RSS Feed