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Most people were put off by the extreme vocals on this album. I could never understand that. From the beginning Bethlehem was never a band who wanted to conform to any sort of conventional ways or values. Bethlehem’s music has and will always be about suicide, madness, mental illness etc. and you simply can’t expect a band that addresses such dark subject matter in their work to sound like every other outfit out there.
The vocals are tormenting, uncomforting, cold and insane. This is one of the main aspects that make this album such a legendary masterpiece. Just by listening to the moaning, screams and utter desolation within the vocal style, you can already feel the uncanniness and total loss of hope that is ever-present within the music and lyrics. The guitars are very basic most of the time – it seems that it is mostly power-riffs that are played, but the band uses this very effectively. This proves once again that the simplest things in art can turn out to be metamorphosed into a complexity that outsmarts any kind of purity-obsessed individual.
As always, Bethlehem used keyboards in the background. The keyboards contribute a very melancholic kind of atmosphere, whereas the guitars function more as a contribution to the cold-heated aggressiveness that is present in the music. The guitar riffs differ from low-tuned to high-pitched. On the third track there is an intro filled with high-pitched riffs that goes along very well with the opening scream uttered by the vocalist. For those who are musical purists, the way in which Bethlehem switches between low-tuned and high-pitched riffs, as well as faster and slower pieces might seem boring, but in that case the purists are totally missing the point.
Towards the end of the album there are much more mellow and dreamy parts in the music. This consists of pieces that are played on keyboard and very slow guitar. It is beautiful in its own sense, since the melancholy and loss of hope is still ever-present.
In contradiction with the highly paced piece of madness that the album started off with on the first track, it ends with a slow fading piece on the last track that feels as if it is leaving you out there in the cold to despair until the angel of death comes to take you.
Along with “Death – Pierce Me” by Silencer, this is certainly of the greatest masterpieces of madness in the dark bowels of metal history.

Sample: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...