Menu
195 metal CDs
  • Home
  • About
  • Full list of CDs
  • Genres
  • Scores
195 metal CDs

Twin Obscenity—For Blood, Honour and Soil (1998)

Posted on Friday 21 October 2016Thursday 4 July 2019
Twin Obscenity—For Blood, Honour and Soil (1998)
Twin Obscenity—For Blood, Honour and Soil (1998)

Details

Recorded and mixed at Sound Suite Studio from May to June 1998. Produced by Atle Wiig, Knut Naesje and Jo Arlid Toennessen. Engineered by Terje Refsnes. Mixed by Terje Refsnes and Twin Obsenity. Mastered at DMS, Marl, Germany.

Encyclopedia Metallum

Band

  • Atle Wiig—Vocals and guitars
  • Jo Arlid Toennessen—Bass
  • Knut Naesje—Drums

Guest musicians

  • Mona Undheim Skottene—Keyboards and vocals
  • Alexander Twiss—Guitars

Tracks

  1. In glorious strife
  2. The usurper’s throne
  3. For blood, honour and soil
  4. Upon the morning field
  5. The wanderer
  6. Riders of the Imperial guard
  7. The thrice-damned legions
  8. The 11th hour
  9. Lain to rest by the sword

Review

Well, here it is… four and a quarter years after I began this project I’m staring at the cover of the final CD: For Blood, Honour and Soil the second of three albums by Norwegian black/pagan/death metallers Twin Obscenity.

I can’t quite put my finger on it, but this album isn’t your usual black metal release. It’s strangely melodic, and has echoes of Celtic Frost’s early work, with avante garde flourishes and female vocals weaving in and out of the riffs and solos. The guitars are strummed quickly, the drums beat and crash at a m, and the bass rumbles beneath it all. The album is dark but grand, melodic but atonal in places (there are a few solos like this), and keyboards gentle tinkle a haunting melody.

Melodic black metal isn’t really my thing, so to me this isn’t a great album, but it is played with passion and conviction. I can see why someone might really enjoy this.

Conclusion

I had hoped for an outstanding album to be my last review of this collection of CDs. But I guess you can’t have everything (I mean, where would you put it!—Steven Wright). If I was played my albums on random and this one came on then I certainly wouldn’t skip it, I’m just not certain that I’d go hunt it out.

Review score: 70%

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Genres

  • About the project (4)
  • Heavy metal (213)
    • Alternative (11)
    • Ambient (3)
    • Avant-garde (8)
    • Black (38)
    • Crossover (2)
    • Death (50)
    • Doom (18)
    • Drone (5)
    • Experimental (14)
    • Folk (7)
    • Gothic (7)
    • Grindcore (15)
    • Groove (8)
    • Industrial (11)
    • Instrumental (5)
    • Metalcore (11)
    • Power metal (5)
    • Progressive (32)
    • Ragga (2)
    • Sludge (15)
    • Speed metal (2)
    • Thrash (26)
  • Punk (15)
  • Rock (40)
    • Blues (2)
    • Depressive (1)
    • Electronic (1)
    • Grunge (1)
    • Hardcore (15)
    • Indie (1)
    • Post-Hardcore (1)
    • Psychedelic Rock (1)
    • Stoner (3)
  • Spoken word (1)

Recent Posts

  • Buckshot Facelift—Ulcer Island (2018)
  • BillyBio—Feed the Fire (2018)
  • Krysthla—Worldwide Negative (2019)
  • Flotsam and Jetsam—The End of Chaos (2019)
  • Latitudes—Part Island (2019)
  • Cerberon—Cerberon EP (2018)
  • In The Woods…—Cease the Day (2018)

Most common tags

60% 65% 70% 75% 80% 85% 90% 95% 98% 100% 2007 2008 black black metal death Death metal doom England experimental Finland grindcore hardcore industrial Italy London melodic death metal metal metalcore music New York Norway NY prog progressive progressive metal punk review rock sludge Sweden thrash thrash metal UK US USA

Music genres

About the project Alternative Ambient Avant-garde Black Blues Crossover Death Depressive Doom Drone Electronic Experimental Folk Gothic Grindcore Groove Grunge Hardcore Heavy metal Indie Industrial Instrumental Metalcore Post-Hardcore Power metal Progressive Psychedelic Rock Punk Ragga Rock Sludge Speed metal Spoken word Stoner Thrash
Copyright © 2019 Gareth J M Saunders