Incipit Satan - Gorgoroth

Although it's one of my least favourite releases from Gorogoroth, the experimental 'Incipit Satan' is still an album I admire for its bold attempts at transgressing the band's restrictive black metal framework, even if the results aren't always successful. Guitarist and songwriter Infernus has clearly been struggling with a preference for melody even since the band's early days, and here he's free to experiment to his full with light, harmonic guitars in songs like 'An Excerpt of X,' which would have been out of place in previous, darker works. This is a nicely varied album, but not a particularly consistent one. 'Incipit Satan' mixes angry shouty sections ...  Read the complete review