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Currently this is what i played mostly the last few days. I change in this every week. In Solitude Opthalamia Deströyer 666 Primordial Nifelheim
Nice. I'm glad to see that someone else out there like Ophthalamia, those guys don't get near enough mention when the topic of Swedish black metal comes up. A Journey in Darkness is a cool and unique album, and I still like their weirder stuff like Via Dolorosa too. I guess more people like their Swedish black metal to be all blast beats and tremolo picked riffs, as opposed to Ophthalamia's heavier and darker approach, which is still rife with melody and atmosphere.
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Opthalamia definitely deservs more credit. Both those albums have really interesting melodies and a really dark atmosphere. I prefer Journey in Darkness because of Jon's vocals. He have that harsh, evil sound but is still very clear and easy to understand. Otherwise both albums are really good and i use to listen to them as entire albums. Cant really just pick out a song or two from them as i use to do with others sometimes.

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Opthalamia definitely deservs more credit. Both those albums have really interesting melodies and a really dark atmosphere. I prefer Journey in Darkness because of Jon's vocals. He have that harsh, evil sound but is still very clear and easy to understand. Otherwise both albums are really good and i use to listen to them as entire albums. Cant really just pick out a song or two from them as i use to do with others sometimes.
It's just insane how much fucking killer music that guy was making from 1993-1995. Two of the best black metal albums ever with Dissection, dark, melodic, original and fantastically riffy black metal with Ophthalamia, one of the best black/thrash albums ever with Nifelheim's debut, and the evil as fuck sounding The Priest of Satan from The Black. Truly one of the greats to come out of the Swedish scene, it's too bad his career basically stopped there.
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It's just insane how much fucking killer music that guy was making from 1993-1995. Two of the best black metal albums ever with Dissection' date=' dark, melodic, original and fantastically riffy black metal with Ophthalamia, one of the best black/thrash albums ever with Nifelheim's debut, and the evil as fuck sounding The Priest of Satan from The Black. Truly one of the greats to come out of the Swedish scene, it's too bad his career basically stopped there.[/quote'] Well the locked him up in 97 so he didnt really get a chance to release any more. But all those albums are really good, especially Priest of Satan. I really like the last Dissection album aswell, Its a melodic masterpiece and his vocals were fiercer then ever.
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Re: Who are your current top 5 bands?

Well the locked him up in 97 so he didnt really get a chance to release any more. But all those albums are really good, especially Priest of Satan. I really like the last Dissection album aswell, Its a melodic masterpiece and his vocals were fiercer then ever.
A lot of people have a problem with it, and it doesn't sound like Dissection, so I can understand it. However, it is a pretty good melodeath album, and while I don't agree about his vocals, I love the melodies they used. Some of the riffs were just okay, but they were pretty unique and wonderful melodies for melodeath, a refreshing take considering that almost every other band doing it at the time was using the same played out Iron Maiden progressions. Sent from my HTC PH39100 using Tapatalk 2
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