"This one's more punkish, standard thrash and simplistic" That is just utterly false. There is nothing here that is remotely "punkish". The icy cold serrated guitars and dissonant riffing work is nothing like any hardcore punk at all. That judgement just sounds like auditory pareidolia or something. Standard thrash also shows very little in common with this album. Blood Fire Death is the one that is ACTUALLY standard thrash. This is a clear mix up you made and it's kind of shortsighted. Also 91/100 is underrating the album.
"So while this album isn't the most origjnal of Bathory's works" Are you kidding? This IS Bathory's most Original works, Blood Fire Death is even less original than Under the Sign. This album is literally arguably the most original, and unique album of 1987. Bathory completely departed from previous influences and sound styles, and made something entirely new with this album. You dont hear the cold wind steely sound of Massacre, or the chainsaw onslaught of Chariots of Fire anywhere else. Or the warm hellish sound of Call from the Grave. Its industrial, mechanized auditory slaughter. I give this album a 96/100.
"This one's more punkish, standard thrash and simplistic" That is just utterly false. There is nothing here that is remotely "punkish". The icy cold serrated guitars and dissonant riffing work is nothing like any hardcore punk at all. That judgement just sounds like auditory pareidolia or something. Standard thrash also shows very little in common with this album. Blood Fire Death is the one that is ACTUALLY standard thrash. This is a clear mix up you made and it's kind of shortsighted. Also 91/100 is underrating the album.
"So while this album isn't the most origjnal of Bathory's works" Are you kidding? This IS Bathory's most Original works, Blood Fire Death is even less original than Under the Sign. This album is literally arguably the most original, and unique album of 1987. Bathory completely departed from previous influences and sound styles, and made something entirely new with this album. You dont hear the cold wind steely sound of Massacre, or the chainsaw onslaught of Chariots of Fire anywhere else. Or the warm hellish sound of Call from the Grave. Its industrial, mechanized auditory slaughter. I give this album a 96/100.