Review by ZeroSymbolic7188 for Dissection (SWE) - Storm of the Light's Bane (1995)

This is a tough one, because I admire a lot of things about this album. It manages to be progressive but not pretentious. It has very creative and sophisticated guitar work. It doesn't compromise it's black metal ethos while achieving those things either. It's somehow dark and brooding, black metal, and also really beautiful. Yet, I don't like it. This album to me is like looking at something that is objectively excellent, but not really desiring it. I cannot for the life of me put my finger on the element of this album that makes me feel so indifferent to it. This is a Lamborghini Diablo of a black metal album, the problem is that I'm a pick-up truck man.