Satanic Warmaster – Opferblut (2003)

May 31, 2023

I’ve had a whole bunch of listens to this thing but it keeps sailing on by. I cannot get a grip on any of the songs, none of which are particularily bad by the way, but leave no trace after they are gone and the next one has started. Hell, the first time I played this the whole thing had looped through without me even realising it, which is not a good thing.

I have no complaints about production, instrumentation, vocals and I can’t decipher any overt NSBM themes (always a plus) but nothing on this album sticks. It is one colossal, infinite “meh”. I appreciate using the word “meh” to review a black metal release is incredibly unprofessional but I am really struggling with this album, so I need to just give up and move on.

TLDR: Not bad, just severely uneventful.