GORGOROTH - Quantos Possunt Ad Satanitatem Trahunt CD

The thing I liked the most of early Gorgoroth was the riffing, which it's the main aspect you'll find different from the last 3 albums, making a true return to form here. It's full of melancholic darkness, heavily inspired on classical music, some thrashy feel in some songs, (something that made Pentagram what it is), even a couple of songs have a slight black n' roll feel, which has been a trademark of Infernus. He explores basically all posibilities: tremolo picking, palm mutes, dissonant arpeggios, open chords, you name it.

Quantos is an unusually melodic album, almost like swedish' Dawn or Dissection sometimes, but I can't help but give all possible kudos to him for the flowing aspect of the riffs. The songwriting is excellent and solid, effortlessly riff upon riff flows with each other, the transitions are great, the harmonic construction of the songs it's very coherent, especially on 'Prayer', 'Rebirth' and 'Satan-Prometheus'. You can say the guy knows how to write a song, being a black metal one of whatever.