1. Magical Shadows of a Tragical Past (10min01)
2. Born under the Master's spell (5min30)
3. Ravens of my funeral (7min41)
4. Black Imperial Blood (5min36)
5. Eternal Empire of Majesty Death (7min07)
6. Transylvania (6min53)
7. Under Ardailles night (4min23)
8. Tears of a Melancholic vampire (8min02)

Total Time : 54 min 13

Mutiilation is one of the 4 bands forming the french Black Legions (the other bands are "Vlad Tepes", "Belketre" and "Torgeist"), black metal bands playing pure, raw black metal, without any compromise. On this release, no fucking keyboards, no happy female vocals, no production, no complexity, only despair, violence and cold, pure HATRED.

The vocals are totally horrible, they are not human, somewhat low... The guitars' melodies are morbid, blood freezing and magnificent. However, the bass is somewhat hard to hear, and the drum's sound (drum machine?) is pathetic, but it is not a real flaw, a better sound & drumming wouldn't add nothing to the music...

Conclusion :
this CD is limited (now out of print), see if you can get it... "Vampires of Black Imperial Blood" is definitively not for the fans of pseudo "black" metal with silly keyboards and shitty female vocals. Here we have a horrible beast, black, awful... Many will hate it. One of my fav albums. Oh, and as you might know, this band isn't active anymore, the singer/guitarist has died in 1996.

Rating/5 : 5

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Les LÉGIONS NOIRES supportent totalement TOUT ce qui contribue à faire souffrir et disparaître "l'humanité" (Guerres, Génocides, Épidémies...)
QU'ON LE SACHE (and learn french damnit! :)

Today, Black Metal seems to be dead, trendies has taken everything in hands... And Black Imperial Blood is one fist in their pig faces. Anyway, we're tired to be compared with those humans and their false black metal. We are aliens to this world... The Moon, the cry of the wolves and the ancient times were so beautiful, the night is the only thing that creates a feeling in my human shell, as we've nothing to do with life. So, listen to us, admire or scorn us, but don't try to be one of us. We definitely don't belong to the same world...
Wil Lord Meyhna'ch 13/09/94

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