Immortal – Blizzard Beasts (1997)

November 29, 2023

The first real miss from the mostly excellent Immortal. Blizzard Beasts suffers from a sub par production, with what should be an unstoppable barrage of drums being barely audible and buried beneath the hollow muck of the guitar. The riffs are on point however, in the usual frenetic Immortal style. Expect blurs of cold hell in the way of exquisite fretboard wankery (at the lower end of course), but the sound is just a little bit off and there is such an imbalance between the percussion and strings that it is really offputting and spoils the whole album.