Luciferin Valo - Azaghal

Azaghal's most recent album is a significant step above its predecessors both in terms of sound quality and a more mature attitude to songwriting, though this comes with the disadvantage of robbing the Finnish black metal band of some of the eccentricity that I enjoyed so much on the previous release. The style here continues to incorporate the traditional black metal sound with eighties influence, but here it's a more refined and acceptable Bathory influence rather than anything out of left-field, and ends up sounding like a poor man's Burzum without the heart or bloodied hands. The album severely disappoints right from the onset, with the promisingly titled ...  Read the complete review