ORDER FROM CHAOS - An Ending In Fire LP (Black Vinyl)
- 160 gram vinyl
- Gatefold jacket with gloss finish
- A2 double sided poster
This release is the third (Plateau of Invincibility is actually an EP) and final full-length album by Order From Chaos. An Ending in Fire was released post-humously, three years after its recording and the termination of Order From Chaos. The band has stated that they broke up because Order From Chaos had served its course, always succeeding their previous album with the following album and that An Ending In Fire is the culmination of Order From Chaos. And that it is. Three songs of epic black/death metal spread out in nine tracks and clocking up at almost 38 minutes. Sounds very ambitious. And that it is also.
Fortunately Helmkamp, Keller and Miller have more than enough chops to pull it off. And boy do they pull it off excellently. The three songs are all very epic without sounding cheesy and they all sound very extrordinary. By that I mean that they don't really resemble anything I've ever heard by any other band. They are very much different from even OFC's first album Order From Chaos. First off the soundworld is very different. The sickly dirty guitarsound is gone. This time it is closer to your ordinary guitarsound though the dirtyness is still there. Also, the songwriting is more intricate and unorthodox than on Stillbirth Machine. The songs have numerous phases and parts and the way they weave into each other is exquisite.
The riffing on An Ending in Fire is very catchy. As examples one could mention the very beginning riff of Dawn Bringer Invictus (part I of Conqueror of Fear) (Helmkamp's vocal perfromance is something out of this world), all the riffs in the last two minutes of There Lies Your Lord, Father of Victories and the first riff of Plateau Of Invincibility. All the epicness (of cosmological scale), rage and chaotic order make this album a grand listening experience that should be experienced by each and everyone. I don't usually say this, but this is one album that shouldn't be missed by any fan of extreme metal. Definitely essential.