Rating: 17/100
Added to Site: March 19, 2001
Summary: It should be called "DOOM metal holocaust"!!
Review: Hearing HERETIC interested me because I received a flyer which stated "Raw chaotic black metal in the vein of BLASPHEMY, BEHERIT, DARK THRONE, BATHORY, VON, BESTIAL SUMMONING...". So, needless to say this release was a MASSIVE disappointment!! Instead, HERETIC plays doom metal with a black metal vocalist. This might be the slowest "black" metal ever to be recorded. The closest thing I can compare it to is SKEPTICISM or the really slow BARATHRUM songs, but this makes the latter sound like grind it's so slow!!! The first track wasn't too bad but it just gets horribly boring in a hurry!! I can't understand how ANYONE can say this is black metal!!! It's DOOM METAL like it or not!!! I guess the scene really is easy to fool (see Necrapolis). The only good thing about this album is the vocals, but they don't fit the music at all. Just forget about this, if you want real doom listen to CANDLEMASS!!!