The Covenant Progress (Covenant Progress - Crimson Moonlight)

Member Name: Frankingsteins

Product:	Covenant Progress - Crimson Moonlight
Date:	14/06/08 (9 review reads)
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Advantages: Melodic black metal for Christians and non-Christians.

Disadvantages: No ideas of its own.

Crimson Moonlight are one of those frankly laughable oddities of the musical world, a Christian black metal band. A thematic sub-genre that seems mainly designed to allow Christians to enjoy the unparalleled experience of Scandinavian black metal music without worrying about going to hell, it's fair to say that most bands would fail to compare to the genre leaders, but fortunately for heathens, Crimson Moonlight's debut album is actually pretty damned good. I mean, darned.

Moving away from the earlier, keyboard-drenched style of their demo material, these songs are more typically black metal in their ferocity and execution, even if the melodic angle held up by the background keyboard (only coming to the fore in the finale 'The Covenant') and occasional lead guitars (as in the pleasant song 'A Painting in Dark'), aligns it more with early Dimmu Borgir and Dissection. This allows the album to act as another comparatively tame point of entry for black metal newcomers.

1. Mist of the Spiritual Dimension
2. The Pilgrimage
3. Path of Pain
4. Thy Wilderness
5. Eternal Emperor
6. A Painting in Dark
7. Eyes of Beauty
8. A Thorn in My Heart
9. The Covenant

Summary: Crimson Moonlight's first album (2003).