I fucking love this album. It's such a cool, unique album even though on paper it sounds like it shouldn't work at all. Black metal with banjos and flutes? Random protest song interludes? Samples of some grizzled old coal miner talking about being beaten by the foreman and going on strike? What the shit? But somehow it works, for me anyway.
The couple of albums that came after this are a little more traditional black metal and not as heavy on the bluegrass stuff, but still really cool. Dude is involved in like six other bands too. He's prolific as hell.
This came highly recommended on one of NPR's "metal albums to listen to" lists. Not really my thing but I totally respect the idea of a different kind of desolation than the frostbitten Scandinavian wastes.
You know I could really dig this, but the flute sounds extremely off key (at least in the first song) and it irritates the shit out of me. A shame, because the rest is really cool, and I actually enjoy the bluegrass parts a lot. Will check out the rest of the album still.
I don't totally dislike it... but its seem all of a sudden someone opened another WinAmp or something and its playing two different records at same time...
Can't believe I stuck it out for 3 minutes to hear an organ grinder over blast beats.
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