Storm Of The Light's Bane - Dissection

Released back in 1995, Swedish black metal legends Dissection's second full length 'Storm of the Light's Bane' is hailed as an all-time classic, and not without good reason. The songs mix ice-cold sounding, furiously melodic tremolo-riffing and menacing folk-influenced guitar melodies with the eerie and atmospheric heavy metal of King Diamond, creating a unique and incredibly powerful sound that evokes images of giant ice-floes hoving majestically into view as well as conjuring up the delightfully dark hammer-horror creepiness present on aforementioned Dutch legends King Diamond's 1987 album 'Abigail'. Listening to 'Abigail' and 'Storm of the Lights Bane' back to back, ...  Read the complete review

Dissection's second album introduces death metal elements to arrive at an unprecedented fusion that could be classed as blackened melodic death metal (if you want to be really specific). As with its predecessor, this is a great album for newcomers to extreme metal, as it eases the entry process with a heavy focus on melody that prevents it descending into the frozen abyss of more traditional black metal acts such as Immortal and Mayhem, whose influence can still be heard here to a large extent. The melody is less pronounced than on 'The Somberlain,' and the songs tend to stand out a little less on the whole. That's not to say that it's a less than excellent ...  Read the complete review