Viking Crown - Innocence From Hell
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Artist: Viking CrownEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2000-04-11
Music Label: Baphomet
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Free Music Review: Like Black Metal meets Brian Eno. I love it!
Hit: 5 Stars
This is a very unusual Black Metal album and definitely not for everyone.
First of all, all you Pantera and Superjoint Ritual fans expecting to hear more of the same here should just turn around and LEAVE. Now. This music is NOTHING like either group so don't even waste your time. I GUARANTEE you will be disappointed. Viking Crown's music is not for you.
Now, for everybody that's left, whether you will like this album or not will depend on how open your mind is, and on how much of a Metal traditionalist you are. If you're one of those nit-picky people who always bases their assessments of albums on the technical virtuosity of the musicians or the perfection of the production values, you probably won't like this album either.
After a first release on which he played all instruments, on this, Viking Crown's second release, Phil Anselmo (billed with tongue in cheek here as "Anton Crowley") adds the talents of his wife Opal Enthroned on keyboards and Killjoy of Necrophagia on vocals.
While the first Viking Crown release was very much oozy, underground-style Black Metal, with the added members this album ventures into new and even more experimental territory.
The album's music's being sandwiched between an intro and outro consisting of samples from the cheesy 1970 Satanism B-movie classic "I Drink Your Blood" gives us a clue that this album may not take itself all that seriously. But what matters for me here is the music, the RESULT. And for me, that result is great.
It ranges from very raw, grungy and hypnotic Black Metal like "The Burning Embers of Mockery" and "The Red Flames of Sin" to delicate and almost ambient sounding instrumental interludes like "Birth of the Devil Fetus". These quiet and pensive songs are interesting because they make the wild Black Metal songs sound all the more furious and brutal in contrast. For example, after being lulled by the darkly hypnotic "Overlords of Infinite Depression", we are then thrown into pure Black Metal hell by the totally chaotic "The Long and Mighty Reign of Satan". It's these variations in tone that make this album especially interesting.
So did Phil Anselmo intend this as a joke band? Could be. And I think that he was afraid of loosing his cred with his Mainstream Metaller fans by revealing a totally different and very experimental side, so it was easy for him to later just say "aw, actually it was all just a joke, nyuk nyuk."
But frankly I couldn't care less. The fact is that I happen to love the result, even if it might only be great by accident. Viking Crown's releases are some of my very favourite albums in my entire collection because they are so totally unique. And this is my favourite Viking Crown album of all.
But I would only recommend their albums to people with a very adventurous spirit who enjoy musical experimentation and can stomach lo-fi production, because that is the essence of what Viking Crown is all about.
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