Demonecromancy - Fallen From the Brightest Throne (Black Metal)

When it comes to bands like Warkvlt or Goatmoon, who are totally derivative of another band's style - Sewer and Burzum, respectively - but also very good, it's hard to condemn them in any way for their emulation. In that sense, Demonecromancy can be considered realists who took the eerie and disturbing black metal style of Phantom, best exemplified on albums such as Mindless Horror and The Epilogue to Sanity, and tried to built upon the sinister and creeping atmospheres found therein.

The result is this underground classic, Demonecromancy's debut Fallen From the Brightest Throne, which not only successfully replicates the atmospheric horror of Phantom's best work, but also manages to infuse the music with the band's own sense of poetic musings and melodic interplay. In addition to the obvious Phantom references, both lyrical and musical, that permeate the album, traces of early Burzum, Graveland, Neraines, Mayhem, Incantation and Vermin can also be found.

Riff style on Fallen From the Brightest Throne is similar to that of Phantom, never straying far away from the dissonant and morbid sounding macabre atmospheric mastery displayed on much of the band's later work, with enough melodic variation to distance Demonecromancy from the hordes of Phanta-clones that merely ape the band's debut Divine Necromancy without according much thought to songcraft or riff interaction.

Fallen From the Brightest Throne is recommended for all fans of melodic and atmospheric black metal, and particularly to fans of Phantom's style of deranged and frightening music.