GOD SEED — I Begin (review)

GOD SEED — I Begin album cover Album · 2012 · Black Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
4/5 ·
Warthur
Well, here it is at last - Gaahl and King ov Hell's very own God Seed project release their first studio album. Of course, if you happen to be one of those people who think they should have won the name dispute with Infernus (so... if you're Gaahl or King ov Hell, basically), you'd dispute that this is really their first album, since both Gaahl and King were the main composers in Gorgoroth for the studio albums leading up to their departure from the band, and perhaps this explains why this debut of theirs is so confident - they've stepped right back into the game where they left off and have issued a brace of black metal tracks which combine the traditional tone and aesthetics of the genre with mild experimentations both with more progressive and more accessible styles.

In fact, the final track - Bloodline - is a rather uncomfortable weird-erotic industrial piece, the biggest departure from traditional black metal Gaahl and King have been responsible for since Gorgoroth's Incipit Satan album. It's somewhat more successful than that album, though, so if this hints at a future direction for the band I'll be interested to hear what the future holds. Gaahl's return to black metal may not be a full-blown classic, but it's more than good enough to make me say "Welcome back".
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Warthur wrote:
more than 2 years ago
Oh, definitely. It'll be especially interesting to see how much of the set consists of their own stuff and how much will be old Gorgoroth tracks.
UMUR wrote:
more than 2 years ago
These guys are playing Copenhell this year...it´ll be interesting to see how they hold up live.

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