Mactätus – Provenance Of Cruelty CD

2023 Reissue of the band's long out of print brilliant second album from 1998 with original artwork & sound. At the time of its release the hype for Scandinavian Black Metal, Symphonic and Melodic Black Metal was already declining, following milestones such as Emperor's "In the Nightside Eclipse", Dimmu Borgir's "Stormblåst", Mörk Gryning's "Tusen år har gått",gehenna's "Second Spell" or Limbonic Art's "Moon in the Scorpio". The result was that at the time of their release in late 1998 equally brilliant Symphonic Black Metal albums such as Mactätus' "Provenance of Cruelty" were not as appreciated as the classics before them and remained obscure and underrated. This, however, is definitely an album that belongs in every Symphonic or Melodic Black Metal collection and fans of the aforementioned albums should definitely check it out if they don't know it yet!