THORNS

Release Year: 2011
Artist Origin: NOR
Style: grim progressive industrial black metal

highly praised as the initiator of grim Norwegian black metal riff, with heaps of remarkably innovative ideas far ahead of its time, Snorre Ruch was not so lucky with his main band - it took him more than a decade, marked by turbulent events, despair and agony, to finally produce this debut and the only longplay [2001] so far, but it has turned into a masterpiece in its own gritty, industrialized, progressive league: the boundary-defying experience reveals an intelligent and thought-out creativity with dystopian atmosphere, capturing the essence of entire genre, where none other but Hellhammer [Mayhem] on drums, Aldrahn [Dødheimsgard] and Satyr [Satyricon] on vocals contribute the genius; recent British re-issue comes with a remastered sound and two bonuses from demo [2000], including unreleased TSoS, as well as Vortex video