NAPALM RECORDS
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ABIGOR-In Memory
This is a little 5 song CD. It is filled with unreleased tracks and covers. They have a new album coming out this year sometime. I would like to tell you what they are covering by Slayer and Kreator, but I can't read the song titles. For those who don't know these guys, they are a black metal band.

MACTATUS-The Complex Bewitchment
I'm not a big fan of this. This is some black metal. I can't get into it. The cover of the CD is a little scary. I don't like the sound of the keyboards in this either.

ABIGOR-Channeling the Quintessence of Satan
After getting past the intro in the beginning, this doesn't sound bad. This also is black metal. This at least doesn't seem to be real slow like the other two releases. The vocals don't seem that loud, but other than that the production sounds good.

DISMAL EUPHONY-Lady Ablaze
I don't like it. The music isn't bad. It is a metal band. I'm not sure what the guy singing is doing. It sounds like he could be using effects to change his voice. Out of no where comes these other vocals, it sounds like it could be Minnie Mouse whining at the top of her lungs. These guys are now on Nuclear Blast.

FORLORN-Ad Caelestis Res
The vocals on this are real low. It is hard to hear what he is doing. The vocals are black metal, but there are parts where he is actually singing. Their bio says this is "Viking Metal." So if you know what that means, and like it, then pick this up!

GRABESMOND-Xenoglossie
Okay, I think this is just keyboards. That is what it sounds like to me. I think there is a chick doing it. It didn't sound like to me there was any vocals. It is very mellow. I hear some clips from movies here and there.

LACRIMAS PROFUNDERE-Memorandum
Gay. That is all I can say. Really slow, and melodic. They guy singing doesn't sound bad, he kinda sounds like Pete Steele and then he breaks into some death metal. I'm not a fan.

MACTATUS-Provenance of Cruelty
More black metal. I'm not a fan of the vocals though. I just don't care for them much. The music sounds real good. It isn't super fast or anything, but it still sounds good.

MALIGNANT ETERNAL-Alarm
More black metal from the label. I want to go on a limb and say the drums COULD be a drum machine. They sound far better than any set I have ever hear in my life. But I'm not 100% sure. They have a couple pretty cool parts here and there. This is probably the best one out of all the releases I got from Napalm.

OBTAINED ENSLAVEMENT-The Shepherd and the Hounds of Hell
This is some black metal. But I can hear a death and metal influence. The guy from Gorgoth, Pest signs on this, but I'm not sure if he is the singer for the whole thing, or just some parts. I can't get into this for some reason.

SETHERIAL-Hell Eternal
This starts off with one of the black metal screams. Gotta love it. Black metal CD. It's good, the vocals could be a little louder. This has some guy singing who use to sing for Dark Funeral. This also features members from In Battle, who ever that is.

SIEBENBURGEN-Delictum
More black metal. This actually sounds good. Well, the bio says they are Gothic/Vampyric Metal. They have keyboards, I think , but they sound good with it. There is a female vocalist too. She has a good voice. She mixes in with the guy doing the black/death vocals.

SUMMONING-Stronghold
More slow shit. This has really long songs. The vocals are black metal. They seem to have some long intro's to the songs and then it kicks into it. But from what I could take, it wasn't super fast or anything.

THE SINS OF THY BELOVED-Perpetual Desolation
This is another death/black metal type thing. And this has female vocals too. This chick, probably has the best voice out of everyone I have heard so far. They are using some violins in this and it sounds great with it. They copy Metallica's The Thing That Should Not Be.

TRISTANIA-Beyond Veil
What the hell is this? I don't like this. Gothic metal. There are female vocals and it sounds like something I would hear in church.

VINTERSORG-Odemarkens Son
I don't like this. I don't like the vocals. I don't know if he is singing or talking or what. This is suppose to be the only Folk Heavy Metal Band in Sweden. I don't even think this is in English.