Between Two Worlds - I

I is an unimaginatively titled black metal supergroup that decided to forsake each band member's experienced styles and instead pursue a patronisingly simplistic heavy metal approach. While the result isn't particularly bad, it's never anything beyond a distinctly average album of heavy metal spoiled by Abbath's out-of-place black metal growls throughout, that sound noticeably more hoarse and less powerful than in Immortal. My main issue with the music is that it's all so slow and dull, plodding along at the pace of an average Judas Priest track and only becoming faster and more energetic in 'Battalions' and 'Cursed We Are.' Ice Dale unleashes some pretty cool ...  Read the complete review