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

"Night's Blood" wins my personal award for greatest Extreme Metal song of all time.

Oh yeah, and this album has some other pretty damn good songs on it too. "Soulreaper" and "Where Dead Angels Lie" manage to hold their own and not be completely overshadowed by "Night's Blood" (a huge accomplishment), and are bona-fide genre classics in their own right. "Unhallowed" and the title track might be footnotes compared to those three or the stirringly sinister "Thorns of Crimson Death", but even they - the supposed weaker songs - still outclass 95% of metal! That's how great this disc is. No weak spots. No spots that are anything less that fantastic and timeless. "No Dreams Breed in Breathless Sleep" is my favorite instrumental outro of all time and caps the whole wintry experience off perfectly. It is haunting in its simple, melancholic elegance. This whole album is a masterclass in how to make music that is simultaneously sinister, beautiful, melodic, majestic, evil and heart-wrenching. And it contains both my favorite album artwork and extreme metal song ever?? Hellyes/10.