Drawing Down The Moon - Beherit

Another reputed classic of early black metal, Beherit's second album (or more appropriately, their first full-length release) is a huge improvement of the careless and often terrible quality of its predecessor. The songs are fuzzy, badly produced and repetitive as Hell, but some of the riffs and dark ambient keyboard melodies are enjoyable and surprisingly memorable enough to make this comparable to the other black metal bands of the early nineties, occasionally sounding much like a less intense, less catchy, less eerie and less good Burzum. The atmosphere of this recording is dark, stinking and vile in the way only first-wave black metal ever really achieved, ...  Read the complete review