KRONET TIL KONGE
Dødheimsgard
•Tech/Extreme Prog Metal
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Studio Album, released in 1995 Songs / Tracks Listing 1. Intro (1:00) - Aldrahn / vocals, guitar CD Malicious Records (1995) Thanks to ivansfr0st for the additionand to ProgLucky for the last updates Edit this entry |
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Essential: a masterpiece of progressive rock music(0%)
Excellent addition to any prog rock music collection(11%)
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SPECIAL COLLABORATOR Honorary Collaborator

The music is very primitive and raw black metal comperable to noisy punk or early hardcore bands like Cryptic Slaughter or Extreme Noise Terror. Dødheimsgard is also very influenced by the early thrash metal scene. Bands like Sodom, Kreator, Destruction, Hellhammer, Celtic Frost and Possessed haven´t lived for nothing. If you know bands like Darkthrone ( the drummer from Darkthrone plays bass on Kronet til Konge) and Mayhem you will know what kind of style I am talking about. All the songs just blend together into a grey ( black) mass of trivial cliches though and I´m afraid the only thing that can excite me is the singer Aldrahn which have a very authentic and extremely angry rasp. No processed vocals here fortunately.
The sound quality is as it is on most early TRUE black metal recordings. Lo-fi. Really primitive and raw. Noisy you might say. I know this is how TRUE black metal fans want their music, but personally I find this to be way to primitive.
The musicians are sloppy and especially the drums from Vicotnik ( who would later shift solely to guitar) are very untight.
I can´t recommend this album to prog heads at all. If you´re curious about Dødheimsgard try their two latest albums instead as they are really great. 666 International and Supervillain Outcast are some of the best experimental extreme metal albums I have ever heard. I´m gonna have to give Kronet til Konge 1 star though as I really think this is a poor effort. Not recommendable to anyone else but fans of the early norwegian black metal scene.
COLLABORATOR PSIKE, JR/F/Canterbury & Eclectic Teams

While DØDHEIMSGARD would evolve fairly quickly even as soon as their second release "Monumental Possession" which would find them finding their own creative stamp on black metal before they would really delve into the avant-garde and industrial worlds, KRONET TIL KONGE is so generic it hurts after coming to this last after their original and creative run of "Satanic Art" to "A Umbra Omega." In fact if you placed any of these tracks on the first few Darkthrone albums no one would know the difference except for a slightly different sound of the vocals. The song structures are nearly identical as is the overall bleak atmospheric din.
There is nothing really bad about KRONET TIL KONGE either. It's as good as any other standard second wave black metal release of the era, but with a band as original as DØDHEIMSGARD it comes across as woefully substandard and even though i am a huge fans of this band i have skipped this one until i found the 2015 remastered version used in mint condition and took a chance. While i'm happy i have tasted this early roots era of DØDHEIMSGARD, i very much doubt if i'll be throwing this on for listening pleasure. Average and for completists only.
2.5 rounded down
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Dodheimsgard was the formation of Aldrahn and Vicotnik, two members of the
Norwegian black metal realm. With assistance from DarkThrone drummer Fenriz on bass
guitar, the debut Kronet Til Konge was released on Malicious Records in 1995. The
music is fairly standard black metal of the Norwegian
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Report this review (#86074) | Posted by bleak | Monday, August 7, 2006 | Review Permanlink
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