Год:1996
Страна:Belgia
Стиль:Viking/Black Meta

Tracklist:
 1 Blasfemia Eternal 00:30
 2 Total Misanthropia 04:19
 3 Garden of Delights (Eva) 04:03
 4 Quest for Blood (Le Vampire) 03:46
 5 Blood of Christ (Mohammed Wept) 03:59
 6 Epoebos Aionia 03:50
 7 (Het Verdronken Land Van) Saeftinge 04:49
 8 Shades of Eternal Battlefields 04:11
 9 Vae Victis 04:06
 10 Fallen Angel 02:22

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 Ancient Rites - _Blasphemia Eternal_
(Mascot Records, 1996)
by: Steve Hoeltzel

Although Ancient Rites are generally tagged as a black metal
band, it's kind of hard to see why. Maybe it's just their makeup,
because on _BE_ (their second full-length), they favor a style much
more akin to that of great 80's thrash bands like Sodom and
(especially) Kreator - right down to the
quiet-strings-meets-crunchy-riffing opening of their CD. More than
anything else, they remind me of Kreator circa that band's first two
albums, but with a somewhat less ferocious overall sound. _BE_
definitely contains some solid, thrashy material, delivered with
competence and conviction - for proof, check out "Garden of Delights."
Thrash metal lives or dies with the killer riff, though, and a lot of
the riffs on this album are neither complex, nor catchy, nor all that
energetic, which makes a lot of the songs hard to really get into. The
vocals are mid-ranged and rather subdued (for an underground act), and
the band cruises through most of their material at a pretty restrained
speed. So as extreme metal goes, this is fairly tame stuff. Yeah, it
has that 'old school' metal feel to it, but the real giants of the old
school could just blow this stuff away in terms of energy and
invention.// http://www.chroniclesofchaos.com/