Destroyer

As a guitarist catching up on my Metal, these guys are a recent suprise. This album manages to follow the strict rules of Black while including enough variation and detail work to make tracks distinguishable from one another (a problem with some artists). The vocals have much more personality than most recent Metal acts - who cares if you can scream for forty minutes, dude?! The sound is amazingly filthy, lo res and harsh, another requirement of pure Black Metal. The drums don't fall into those alternating snare-bass spazzouts that are so unimpressive. You also get the kind of scary chord progressions one expects. In short, I think this is a great Black album, maybe the best I've ever heard (better even than Transylvanian Hunger). So if you prefer Immortal to Mastodon, this is where you need to drop your cash.

the best of gorgoroth imo this cd is loaded with forbidding chord proggressions and is a classic I once had and glad to buy again.

I am satisfied, I like the music.

This is and awesome CD very pleased with the arrival. Great timing for it to show up at my door. Thank you very much.

Great band

One thing you can count on when putting on Destroyer is that it will wake you up. I've considered buying an alarm clock that plays music just to I could put the beginning of the title track on it to get my butt out of bed in the morning; it's just a lot of noise and screaming before, at about 30 seconds in, it becomes recognizable as a song. This is also the only track that Gaahl does the vocals for here, and he uses his brief appearance well."Open the Gates" is one of my favorite Gorgoroth songs ever. I probably say that about too many songs, but I mean it here. This, and a few songs on Under the Sign of Hell, especially, are the reason I think Pest is so awesome. The scream at 2:46 is just about the coolest thing I've ever heard. The guitars have always stood out for me as particularly excellent in this song also. They're quite fuzzy but there are some interesting melodies going on. The production is not exactly great but it doesn't really bother me at all here.The sound effect on "The Devil, the Sinner and his Journey" strike me as somewhat goofy. T. Reaper does the vocals on this, which are interesting, but just sort of add to how chaotic and disjointed this album feels. It starts off really well, and they're nothing here I dislike, but it just doesn't feel like a coherent whole in the way that other Gorgoroth albums do. The fact of having four different vocalists on only a handful of songs doesn't help matters in this sense. I like all the songs though, especially the first two and "The Virginborn," which is slower and manages to be awesome for over 8 minutes. And have I mentioned yet in this paragraph how much I love Pest's vocals? I can't say anything really bad about this album, I like it, but it just doesn't feel cohesive to me as a whole, which is probably why I don't listen to it very often. Still, I don't think you can go wrong with any of Gorgoroth's albums, and it is definitely a worthwhile purchase, even if I like their other albums better.

Wow. That's the first thing I could think to say when I first heard this bestial raid upon humanity. This is different from the three previous albums. While they retain much of their old style, new things begin to creep in here. First of all the production. It is industrial sounding to a point. By that I mean it sounds very dirty, chaotic and generally unpleasant. Also you will notice the use of more distinct melodies being brought into the forefront. Gorgoroth has always used highly original and beautiful melodies, but these are anything but beautiful. They are apocalyptic and just downright nasty. Everything just sounds so disjointed on this album. But that's where the real charm of this lies. It doesn't require linear sounding music for it to be brilliant. I'll be honest. This music is savage. It is barbaric and I wouldn't have it any other way! Black Metal is not supposed to be pretty. BM is hatred and that is exactly what is presented here.New guitarist Tormentor is introduced here, as is vocalist Gaahl of Trelldom and Gaahlskagg fame (pick up their records too, they are just as good,) though he only sings on the first song (the title track, which also features a drum machine.) Infernus does guitar and bass on some songs, Frost provides drums on some as does Vrolok, and longtime vocalist Pest does the remainder of the vocals. This album was recorded during a period of four years (1994-1998.) The constant though is mastermind Infernus, founder, guitarist and primary songwriter of Gorgoroth. His riff work is still as stunning as ever I might add. Just for the record, here is the lineup for this record.Vocals: Pest, GaahlGuitars: Infernus, TormentorBass: Ares, T. ReaperKeyboards: DaimonionDrums: Frost, VrolokAnyway, enough of me rambling on about how great this is. Find out for yourself and buy this record. Help support Gorgoroth and all REAL Black Metal. Hail Satan!

Where do I begin? I suppose I can say i'm not one to praise Black Metal. I'm more of a Melodic Death kinda guy. Only rescently did I decide to randomly listen to "At the Heart of Winter" by Immortal (which was actually amazing) and I suppose the image of Gorgoroth attracted me. Didn't know what to make of the music. I heard from the grapevine that "old" ("old" being 80s-90s) Norweigan Black Metal bands have bad production quality but curiosity got the better of me. I picked the most attractive album name (destroyer) and prepared for an interesting experience.Oh my god. Oh my god!! This is incredible. The brutality and atmosphere is insaine. Granted, I don't have a clue what the lyrics are about as every song is just demonic shouting but, oh my god. Just the atmosphere created makes me want to destroy a japanese city dressed as a giant lizard!!I can't really say much more. Except this album is incredible. And at high volume it makes my ears bleed. That's all really.

- der Sound ist selbst für die 90er und gemessen an dem Genre unter aller Kanone. So “low-fi“ sollte keine Musik klingen, wenn man sie am Ende auch noch als solche erkennen soll.- die Songs haben deutlich weniger “Spirit“ als noch auf den Releases zuvor. Hier wurde fast ausschließlich baustellenlärmartiger Krach produziert.- es ist keine Struktur in dem Album zu erkennen (die Platte wirkt wie ein Sammelsurium aus B-Seiten)Einzig “Open The Gates“ und “Pa Slagmark Langt Mot Nord“ stechen aus der “Grütze“ noch einigermaßen hervor und knüpfen an die ersten 3 Werke der Band an. Genießbar sind die Stücke allerdings aufgrund des üblen Sounds trotzdem nur bedingt.Ich kann den Kauf des Silberlings nur aus Gründen der Sammlungsvervollständigung und gegen kleines Geld empfehlen. Als für sich selbst stehendes Album ist diese Veröffentlichung leider nur wenig zu gebrauchen.

Gaahl(vo;1) Pest(vo;2,4,5-7) Infernus(g,b,vo;6,8) Tormentor(g) Ares(b) Vrolok(dr)ノルウェー出身ブラックメタル・バンドによる、1998年4th。レコーディング中にメンバーチェンジが起こったため、新旧入り乱れた編成となっている。Satyriconのフロストも3曲目でドラムを叩いている。極めてブルータルな、突進力に満ちたアルバムである。それでいて暴虐の中にも哀切のメロディがギラリと光る。彼らの音楽性は正統派メタルを土台にしているだけあって、攻撃的でありながら構成もしっかりしており、展開もわかりやすい。数あるブラックメタル・バンドの中でも比較的聴きやすい部類に入るのでは。まあ思想的にはガチのサタニストなのだけど。タイトルは「駆逐艦」という意味。前半はまさに砲弾と爆発の嵐といった戦場ブラックメタルだが、アルバムの後半…5曲目以降はガラリと雰囲気を変えてプリミティブ・ブラック風になってるのも面白い。#8 "Slottet i det fjerne" はDarkthroneのカヴァー。原曲は「Transilvanian Hunger」(1994)に収録されている。音の悪さで有名なDarkthroneより音質が酷いってどういうことだよ(笑)　でも曲はかっこいい。