TROLL – Neo Satanic Supremacy CD
Napalm Records
I tend to write off modern day bands who emulate DIMMU BORGIR, especially since they have a new release coming out this year, but what do you do with one with an ex-member? Singer/guitarist Nagash (aka: Stian Arnesen) used to play bass in DIMMU BORGIR as well as the KOVENANT years ago but at the time he also had this solo/side project called TROLL. His first EP Trollstorm over Nidingjuv from 1995 on Head not Found records was pretty damm good True Norwegian Black Metal release. A year later he released a full length, Drep de Kristne, which translates into “Kill the Christians”. According to his bio that release got him into hot water with the Norwegian government but I don’t understand why since the title is so “subtle”. Anyway Nagash put TROLL on the shelf for a while and devoted more time to DIMMU BORGIR, during their black salad days, until he quit them. In 2000 he resurrected TROLL from obscurity only to put out two more releases which were more in the vein of Industrial/Experimental than the earlier Black Metal works. Failing to gain any traction from the change in sound, Nagash once again called it quits.
So now TROLL is back with a new release which promises to be a return to the blackened days of old. Well sounding exactly like mid era DIMMU BORGIR is what you get with Neo Satanic Supremacy which is a far cry from his first EP. I can also see how this is being pushed to a certain Symphonic Black Metal crowd with the tagline “features former member of DIMMU BORGIR”. There are plenty of tried and true Symphonic genre elements on here like the typical church organ like keyboards over-powering everything. That should be expected of course but atleast they’re not there to showcase the chick in the band who the singer is fucking, like some US Symphonic Black Metal bands. The melodies soar out with plenty of fast guitar riffage and pounding drums. Vocals are raspy of course. Ok the bottom line is yeah this is a recipe for how to make a mid-90’s era Symphonic Black Metal album just like DIMMU BORGIR. On that note TROLL do a fantastic job if you are still into this style of Black Metal.
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