Redemption Process - Anorexia Nervosa

'The Redemption Process' is the most recent album from tastelessly-named French symphonic black metal band Anorexia Nervosa, and the last to feature the vocals of Hreidmarr before he departed. In an odd, interesting and unexpected turn, the album eschews the band's older, more stereotypically evil black metal themes in favour of songs about redemption and salvation, though not to the extent of the explicitly Christian Antestor. The symphonic elements of this album are prominent and bombastic in the style of a film score, as a perpetual undercurrent to Nilcan Vant's clinically pounding drums and Stefan Boyle's roaring guitars. The sound is very similar to ...  Read the complete review