#1498 Blut Aus Nord - What Once Was... Liber III, Pt. 1

I felt physically ill, soul-sucked listening to this, its invasive, subliminally wrong black metal that surges and crawls with guitars and drums and groaning voices chugging and chittering until they're a distant machine digging inexorably towards your heart. A brilliantly unpleasant oilslick, just exciting and riffy enough to keep you hooked into its atmospheric deathspiral 4/5