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| 25 September 2009 - Nuclear Blast |
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1. All Shall Fall
2. The Rise of Darkness
3. Hordes to War
4. Norden On Fire
5. Arctic Swarm
6. Mount North
7. Unearthly Kingdom |
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| Review |
 14 / 20 |
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Here we are, guys. Immortal is back on the black metal scene after 7 years of absence. I've always had a respect for Immortal, they're easilly one of the biggest and best black metal bands out there, in terms of maintaining a high standard throughout their career, even if they were the culprits of all those awful black metal pictures and of those awful videos (Particularly "Call of the Wintermoon"), they maintained a high standard in black metal.
7 years later, we have All Shall Fall.
First thing that comes to mind is how bloody short it is. Little over 40 minutes. But then, we're in black metal, the realm where album lengths are relatively short on average. But they really should have made more to this album than 7 similarly lengthed tracks.
It's unfortunate that every song is the same story, too. It just seems so safe and ungroundbreaking that it just sounds like a complination of some of the old Immortal tracks done differently, theres nothing new. Sounds grow redundant, they really needed to make something totally new to the palette, but they didn't. They stuck to the safe option.
The musical quality is good, it's relatively well written with a polished production, but it isn't worth much when you have nothing new to contribute to the discography apart from the same old thing.
Immortal need to change, even if it is only a little bit. It just seems so safe that I can't really give it a great score. But that said, it's a good and solid black metal record, but it is unmemorable and doesn't offer anything new and unique that we havn't heard before. But to those who like Immortal with all their frostbitten heart, then I recommend you at least listen to it. You may enjoy it more than I did. I enjoyed it, but it was nothing new.
Bottom line: The same old redundant thing, incredibly safe. But done pretty well despite it. 14/20.
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