Ophthalamia - Dominion

Most of you are probably aware of the entity known as "It" (the Black Metal Midget), but what you probably weren't aware of, is that this short man can actually write and play good music.  Far from his better-known Black Noise project Abruptum, this album is a much smoother affair with melodies for days.  What you have here is the next best thing to a Dissection album.  Ironically, Jon Nödtveidt did appear on Ophthalamia's (non-Dissection sounding) first album, but not here.  Although totally lacking blast-beats, the guitar leads and vocals are dead-on Dissection worship; they must have been channeling Jon through his prison walls to make this one.  This is supposedly a concept album based on Macbeth, but who really cares?  We both know what you really want is something to satisfy that Dissection craving since that huge disappointment of Reinkaos.  This is that something.

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