IMMORTAL: The Albums Poll

I can't decide if I like the brain-rattling rush of Battles or the more stately atmospheric-ness of At the Heart of Winter better myself.

Blizzard Beasts is getting my vote since it probably won't get anyone elses and it's a personal favorite.

Torn between At The Heart of Winter and Sons of Northern Darkness.

Pure Holocaust is just plain awesome so I have to go for that one - I do like Blizzard Beasts as well though.

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First five records are straight up classics, not a weak riff to be found and excellent songwriting. I think Blizzard Beasts could've been much much better if it wasn't for that godawful production job. It's most noticable when they play the songs live. I don't know if it's the fault of this Henrikke Helland dude that engineered it, or the band, or anyone else, but it sounds like ass - too quiet, totally flat and stiff.

Battles for me btw, should be no surprise. It barely holds together. Every song has double bass, all the time. It's so fuckin awesome.

Sons of Northern Darkness is a fucking masterpiece imo

between 'pure holocaust' (1st one i heard) and 'sons of northern darkness' for me, tho' i haven't heard 'diabolical fullmoon mysticism' (bathory-worship, right? not that i have a problem with that), 'blizzard beasts' or 'all shall fall'. my favourite song's on 'battles': 'blashyrkh'.

Pure Holocaust!

This is actually a really hard question. I still can't decide. I'm trying not to let the sheer earth-melting amazingness of the final track on Sons of Northern Darkness skew me too much.

Wound up voting Sons of Northern Darkness.

Saw them live supporting that album - part of an ill-fated tour headlined by Halford and also featuring Amon Amarth, Primal Fear, Testament, and a couple of other bands.

Sons of Northern Darkness is a fucking masterpiece imo

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Holocaust.

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I realize that Damned in Black gets overshadowed by the amazing thing that came afterward, but tracks 3-7 are some of Immortal's best, esp "Against the Tide" and the title track. That said, I still can't decide between AtHoW and Sons.

Wait did something Abbathian happen? I see they performed at Heavy Montreal.

nope just the joy caused by his existence on record

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORey8ZYyaQU

At the Heart of Winter shoulda fuckin' walked this

It definitely should've gotten more than one vote. And it's not even my favorite Immortal album.

AND HERE WE GOOO AGAAAANE

Having only heard the first five, it's got to be At the Heart of Winter, with Battles in the North a close second. That said, Immortal is probably my least favourite of the 'big' second wave Norwegian BM bands. Perhaps I'll change my mind once I hear their postmillennial stuff.

the atmosphere on Diabolical Full Moon Mysticism is out of this world. that, Bergtatt, Aspera Hiems Symfonia, Nemesis Divina, DMDS, and the BIG TWO Emperor albums were my first exposure to Norwegian black metal, and despite the genre going to some remarkable places over the years, nothing quite compares to the sound of the stuff from those early days