Seance

Being a fan of Fortress for a long time now, I was eagerly awaiting their next release. I was a little sceptical at first, after Profane, which I didnt like so much, and Stab Wounds which was OK. I didnt know what to expect from this release.

The first track starts off with an intro, and has a cool delay effect on the guitars, and you can hear Azathoth's cool vocals over them. Then just when you think its going to go into somthing heavy, it goes into a weird drum roll type deal, it sounds kind of like the drums in the begining of the Doors song L'America. After that it foes into your typical Fortress riff and the vocals come in. At around 4 minutes 30 sec. a cool little lead guitar comes in, its not much of a solo, but is really cool, with a nice effect on it. The riffs in this song are great too, really heavy and are not your typical Fortress. After a lengthy but great first track, its time for the second one.

Track two starts off with a cool riff, and some great drums, with triplets beats here and there, and some pretty cool stops too. It then goes into some old school Fortress Black metal riffs, with pounding drums and blazing fast guitars. At around 2 minutes 55 sec. a guitar solo comes in, yay Asvargyr!!! It starts off slow then gets more melodic, and then rips towards then end. After a few more riffs another solo comes in and this one rips pretty hard to, Dark Fortress is back my friends. After the solo it goes into a nice heavy riff, Fortress is being new and innovative without straying to far from their roots, and it sounds fucking great,

I'm not going to go through the whole CD, but you'lll be doing yourself a favor if you check this Cd out. If you like Fortress you need to own this CD. Even if your a fan of black metal and never heard these guys before (shame on you!) you should go get it. Even people who are not fans of the Black Metal genre should give it a listen, there a re some great heavy riffs in hear that stray from the typical black metal riffs, but thats not a bad thing at all. The production is top notch to. The Fortress Has Been Rebuilt, All HAil Dark Fortress...