Gorgoroth - Incipit Satan (Review)
Gorgoroth - Incipit Satan Unless memory serves me incorrectly, Gorgoroth had quite the "unconventional" upbringing in the early Norwegian black metal scene. And by "unconventional", I mean "they aren't part of it". Alongside fellow mallcore posers Watain and Dimmu Borgir , Gorgoroth is "black metal" in name only. And they certainly weren't part of the original "Inner Circle" based around Euronymous' shop Helvete, as none of the original founders of black metal - Varg Vikernes, Fenriz, Dead, Nocturno Culto, Samoth, Faust, Euronymous, Hellhammer - have ever mentioned Gorgoroth, its frontman Infernus , or any of its members. Basically, they are fake black metal . And while the original creators of the black metal genre, Darkthrone, Burzum and Mayhem, each expanded their artistic and compositional reaches with each successive release, Infernus and his merry horde of Southern-fried devildom began a sort of musical de-...