Monday, December 13, 2010

BLAZE OF PERDITION (Pol) - 'The Burning Will Of Expansion'


BLAZE OF PERDITION (Pol)
'The Burning Will Of Expansion'
PAGAN RECORDS
Release Date : 15/12/2010

PAGAN RECORDS has always been significant, uncompromised, offering only finest Polish extreme metal and served as the initial platform for new bands. Take BEHEMOTH for example - they started with PAGAN RECORDS and released two demos - 'The Return Of The Northern Moon' (1993) and 'From The Pagan Vastlands' (1994), as well as their debut album - Sventevith' (1995) before took off to be the band that you all knew today.

And those two early demos that led us to set a mail interview with BEHEMOTH back in 1995, which was answered by BAAL RAVENLOCK (drum). It was our first overseas interview and we were definitely on fire to receive his reply in just 1 month time. The questions were interesting, and that statement came from BAAL RAVENLOCK. These are some of the things that inspired us to spill blood on every issues before we finally felt abrupt in 2000 (Issue # 4 was scheduled to be out in 2000 but was delayed until Jan '2005).

Coming back to the release, what we have here is a 2-tracks EP from Polish Black Metal band - BLAZE OF PERDITION. The band has earlier unleashed 'Deus Rex Nihilium Est' EP (materials taken from the split with Russian PSEUDOGOD) and 'Towards The Blaze Of Perdition' debut album.

BLAZE OF PERDITION is impressive with their power pack display of Black Metal, fast and tight plus the usual mid paced melodic break. Excellent sound as well. We have no problem with that but musically, it was something that has been done by many before. No harm to own a copy by the way.