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Rapid Log: 004

I’ve been thinking that it might be better for me to stop posting altogether if I can't provide several full paragraphs per review, rather than continuing to force them into a compressed format that I usually use currently. It’s starting to look like Rate Your Music, Last.fm, or AOTY, where you just get the bare minimum information. Whatever. I’ll keep my complaints to myself for now.

Here is a summary of a few metal releases I've put together.

1. 6enerator - 6enerator (1996)

55/100

Quite abrasive and could really use a re-recording if possible.

Tracklist:
 1. Ruin
 2. Someone
 3. Alarms
 4. Liar
 5. Take
 6. Burn
 7. Silence
 8. Probe
 9. Pets
 10. Trauma
 11. Elevator I (Descend)
 12. Elevator II (Across)
 13. Elevator III (Hell)

2. Abyssal Catacombs - A Hellish Awakening (2020)

70/100
Genre: Blackened doom metal
FFO: ?

Ah... A creature that can do nothing but bow its head in the face of the torture and misery bestowed upon it.

Tracklist:
 1. False Reality
 2. Satanic Bloody Corpse
 3. Unholy Entombment
 4. Sadistic Castration

3. Emperor - In the Nightside Eclipse (1994)

70+/100
Genre: Symphonic black metal
FFO: Dimmu Borgir, Odium, Vargrav, Enslaved

One of the monumental albums in black metal, I suppose. Not much left to say about it. Oh, this particular edition is based on the 2007 Candlelight Records CD press.

Tracklist:
 1. Into the Infinity of Thoughts
 2. The Burning Shadows of Silence
 3. Cosmic Keys to My Creations and Times
 4. Beyond the Great Vast Forest
 5. Towards the Pantheon
 6. The Majesty of the Nightsky
 7. I Am the Black Wizards
 8. Inno a Satana
 9. A Fine Day to Die (Bathory cover)
 10. Gypsy (Mercyful Fate cover)

4. Invincia - Act of Insurrection (2025)

70/100
Genre: Melodic heavy/power metal
FFO: Kobra and the Lotus, Judas Priest, Hammerfall, Flotsam and Jetsam

Energetic, melodic, and naturally reminiscent of songs I still can't quite pinpoint explicitly.

Tracklist:
 1. Act of Insurrection
 2. The Enemy Within

5. Manticora - 8 Deadly Sins (2004)

75/100
Genre: Progressive power metal
FFO: Angra, Noveria, Symphony X, Queensrÿche

Prog-power metal might be the only power metal subgenre that can be taken seriously, and Manticora is definitely one of them.

Tracklist:
 1. Present. If?
 2. 1934. King of the Absurd [Self-Indulgence]
 3. 1944. Playing God [Hatred]
 4. 1946. Melancholic [Betrayal]
 5. 1963. Creator of Failure [Aggression]
 6. 1964. It Feels like the End [Jealousy]
 7. 1969. Enigma [Arrogance]
 8. 1981. Fall from Grace [Ignorance]
 9. 2004. Help Me like No One Can [Apathy]
 10. Present. If, Then...

6. Nödtveidt - Black Light Pantheon (2025)

75/100
Genre: Melodic black/death metal
FFO: Dissection, Thulcandra

Melody of the day? Decently so.

Tracklist:
 1. Black Light Pantheon
 2. Chaos
 3. The Veil
 4. Throne of Rot
 5. The Flame

7. Ophthalamia - A Journey in Darkness (1994)

70/100
Genre: Melodic death/doom/black metal
FFO: Black Sabbath, My Dying Bride, Paradise Lost

The melody of the dark age in its time, it seems.

Tracklist:
 1. A Cry from the Halls of Blood / Empire of Lost Dreams
 2. Enter the Darkest Thoughts of the Chosen / Agony's Silent Paradise
 3. Journey in Darkness / Entering the Forest
 4. Shores of Kaa-Ta-Nu / The Eternal Walk (Part II)
 5. A Lonely Soul / Hymn to a Dream
 6. Little Child of Light / Degradation of Holyness
 7. Castle of No Repair / Lies from a Blackened Heart
 8. This Is the Pain Called Sorrow / To the Memory of Me
 9. I Summon Thee, Oh Father / Death Embrace Me

8. Riket - 2026 (2026)

70/100
Genre: Melodic death metal
FFO: At the Gates, In Flames, Bolt Thrower, The Crown, The Haunted

Somewhere between melodeath and modern death metal. Beats me.

Tracklist:
 1. 1868 - Sommar vid Vinterviken
 2. 1867 - Storsvagaret
 3. 1965 - Höghus och kultur
 4. 1948 - Att döda ett barn
 5. 1885 - Dödsdansen (I månskensnatten)
 6. 1897 - Mot Polen
 7. 1991 - 2000 år (Saliga äro de tålmodiga)
 8. 1937 - Lågor vid portarna
 9. 2009 - Alla ska i jorden (Stefan Sundström cover)

9. Satura - Black Dream (2011)

70/100
Genre: Melodic Metalcore
FFO: ?

A reasonably heavy debut album, dominated by scream vocals with a touch of Middle Eastern-tinged riffs on the final two tracks before the outro.

Tracklist:
 1. Black Dream
 2. Falling to Hell
 3. Dearth of Liberty
 4. Final Shot
 5. Drug Holiday
 6. The Injunctive You
 7. Lie No More
 8. Oriental Cry (Instrumental)
 9. Salvation

10. Sunnata - Burning in Heaven, Melting on Earth (2020)

70+/100
Genre: Sludge/stoner metal/rock
FFO: Conan, Ufomammut, Om, Spaceslug

Sounds light, similar to their first album, but there are prominent atmospheric moments that serve as hooks and the closers.

Tracklist:
 1. Crows
 2. God Emperor of Dune
 3. A Million Lives
 4. Black Serpent
 5. Völva (The Seeress)
 6. Way Out
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