Defending The Throne Of Evil - Carpathian Forest

Carpathian Forest's most commercial album came along at the right time, when mainstream metal became entirely aware of bands like Dimmu Borgir and Emperor, bands that stretched black metal's credibility with their moves towards something a little easier to digest. Fortunately, despite its punk influence and horrendously generic, polished keyboard work, this is still a black metal album at the core, and would thus provide (similar to Dissection's 'Storm of the Light's Bane') a good entry point for metal fans interested in exploring black metal, but a little too weak-willed to delve right in to the classic works. It's certainly more worthwhile than anything released by ...