The Vorum album is like a death metal version of the first Watain.

It's pop candy-metal, but still a good listen, with a combination of haunting darkness in its melodic lines and energetic destruction from its rhythm section.  I'd choose it over a million 3-chord "war metal" bands any day.

Lantern... eh, I really can't do that album at all.  Boring-ass doom metal colliding into speed-metal, with the most off-putting vocals in the history of the genre.

NON

God and Beast is incredible.  "Lucifer, Morning Star", "The Law", and "Between Venus and Mars" are some of the best electronic songs ever.  "Total War" is also great, of course, but it pales next to those three.

The rest is good but not essential.  If you want more, your best bets are "Children of the Black Sun" and "Back to Mono".

Well, at Darken isn't destroying one of his good albums (by which I mean everything up to and including "Following the Voice of Blood") by re-recording it, like most bands who do the stupid re-recording thing do.

In an attempt to atone for exposing you all to the faggotry that is "Amorphis doing acoustic jazz covers of songs from their first album", I will tell you that you need to listen to this post-Angelcorpse project from Gene Palubicki.  Now.

"Edict of the Antichrist Elect" by Palubicki's new band, Perdition Temple, is supposedly material that was written to be the next Angelcorpse album that was never realized because of the band's second dissolution, and some aspects of the album are recognizably Angelcorpse, such as nearly constant speed, militaristic march-blasting percussion, and Morbid Angel inspired high-speed riffs, but there is a major difference in how songs are constructed.  Whereas Angelcorpse tended to bow to the heavy metal need for one or two ear-grabbing, catchy riffs to define a song, with other riffs acting as support between fist-pumping choruses and the song's "iconic" riffs, Edict of the Antichrist Elect takes a more pure death metal approach, with no "catchy" riffs or choruses and more intricate song structures, with frequent riff changes, sometimes gradual, and sometimes jarring; a favorite tactic of the band is to build up gradual riff changes before violently slamming back to an earlier riff.  Structuring songs with no clearly "iconic" passages results in the album requiring careful attention, and being confusing to listen to at first, but the overall effect ends up being more savage than even Angelcorpse's fiercest moments, since there's not an easily hummable moment always around the corner; rather, there is just more jarring angularity, both at a structural level and at a riff level.

Listen to this album.  Now.

(Obligatory youtube link of a song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RcWI3XRtTw )

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxLWjYKqh48

I believe them, based on their main songwriter coming back into the fold.

FYI, he wasn't on Shadow Mechanics or that album with the goatse album cover.

Wow, that version of the title track is awful.  Dropping the treble to 0 and re-recording the drums and solos to be flashier is a terrible idea.  Also, I have no idea who is doing the vocals on the re-recorded parts, but they're no where near as good as the originals.    Hendrik Mobus' singing voice had a haunting nostalgic quality that suited these tracks much better much better.