For the black metal starved Christian music scene, Crimson Moonlight is a band worth checking out. And for the rest of the world, Crimson Moonlight is a band to be prepared for.
Eternal Emperor starts out with an instrumental intro that leads into "Where Darkness Cannot Reach", perhaps the most spectacular black metal masterpiece I've heard. Mind blowing in its relentless energy, a whirlwind of guitars and keyboards rips into you and explodes from within. If you don't like keyboards stay away, as they're mixed as loudly as the guitars in this song and throughout the album, but if you can stomach them they're not only played masterfully, but 100% successfully in adding a haunting atmosphere to the brutality. Anyway, for 3:30, Crimson Moonlight is the greatest band in the world.
Then we get a (again, wonderfully played) keyboard solo that steals track 3 from us, and then the final 2 songs are significantly less impressive than the first. Not poor, but not much above mediocre, either.
All this makes me think one thing -- write more songs!!! They've got the skills -- they can play their instruments just fine, and "Where Darkness. . ." doesn't strike me as a song that turned out amazing by accident. Give this band a little time to churn out some tunes, and if they keep at it, they have unlimited potential. But for the moment, there's a 5-song cd with one song on it. They just made that one song worth the price of the cd.
7/10
Other coverage for this album
Dead Zine 1998Reviewed by MuchFirst off, yes, I suck and totally lost the insert to this EP. Regardless, you get my noble opinion that you have EARNESTLY awaited (har hum) If you're looking for excessive atmospheric black metal here's your package. The first track is a melodic instrumental, but the percussion ignores basic drum beats with plenty of fills, yet still leaving the song somber. Track two displays both atmosphere…Dead Zine 1998Reviewed by D_ListerWhen I first got this CD I was very excited, I've been awaiting this one for a long time, and just took my dear sweet time to get it is all. Anyway I loved this CD the first few times through, and it's a good CD, but the more I listened to it the more I realized that with this CD you can kind of watch Crimson Moonlight grow...or at least it seems that way to me. I'd say their newer stuff is the…Similar sounding releases
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