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IMMORTAL
1995 - Battles In The North.
1997 - Blizzard Beasts.
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May 15, 1995 - 2025: 30 years of: Battles In The North.

The ultimate black impurity.

Leaders of the genre, following 1993's Pure Holocaust CD, the northern blasphemers shall now hatch one of blackmetal's magnum-opus. Out in the snowy mountains of might, we hail at the Altar, the ultimate IMMORTAL.

Instant death, as the title-track for "Battles In The North" and "Grim And Frostbitten Kingdoms" blasts on hyperspeed. Rolling on tombstones, the attack of "Through The Halls Of Eternity" and grindcore killing of "Moonrise Fields Of Sorrow" are decibel-defiant. Über riffing and top aggression, as "Throned By Blackstorms" and "Blashyrkh (Mighty Ravendark)" rips anything remotely Holy.

In an era where deathmetal was on it's very last leg, blackmetal was now the fastest exhibition at the south of Heaven. Bestial, primitive and brutally beautiful, Black Metal's Second Wave race is on !

Recorded as a duo, on tour, a dark union would take place: MAYHEM's Hellhammer would sit on drums. Back in creative-mode, IMMORTAL would bring one of blackmetal's finest terrorizer: 1997's Blizzard Beasts CD.

"The IMMORTAL single stand forever as a mark against those who so pathetically tried to follow us lyrically and musically ...YOU ARE TRULY BENEATH US !"

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Blashyrkh (Mighty Ravendark) = video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NP0H491rRFU
Grim And Frostbitten Kingdoms = video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_Q7TlcXLJ0
Battles In The North = full CD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CKHTNOuvhU&list=OLAK5uy_k87NeX7HDWAXTvXZUubtrwv5QW9HHPwOM
Live in 1995
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuS9UXQS-Zc

February 24, 1997 - 2022: 25 years of: Blizzard Beasts.

This ain't no blizzard of Ozz !

Arising in the Second Wave to become leaders of the Third Black-Metal Wave, Norway's hellbastard are truly: diabolical full moon mysticism. The fourth war-cry from the terrorizing trio of Abbath, Demonaz and Horgh brings hate and imminent apocalypse.

The title-track destroys everything on cue, not a single soul is left standing after this 2:50sec desecration. The coldness sets-in on the hyperblasts of "Frostdemonstorm" and the raw night-calls of "Noctambulant". Pure holocaust assault from the Nordic Gods rear its ugly head on "Mountains Of Might", while crude chaos on the "Battlefields" pummels any opposition.

Norway's early 90s Church burnings and murders hasn't affected this trio. All shall fall, they still stand tall, as our frozen warriors came back from 1995's trendsetting Battles In The North CD and shall continue the icy cold snowy-trilogy with 1999's audacious At The Heart Of Winter CD.

CONQUER ALL WITH PERMAFROST !!!

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Blizzard Beasts = full CD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSve49JX0m4&list=OLAK5uy_nSSq-VOHjucv3lykHnuqk7TJfDA_CFYOE
Live in Italy in 1998
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2wZ6Uwgx_I

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