Pagan Hellfire - On the Path to Triumph
Incarnatus (the founder and sole member of Pagan Hellfire) is back again with yet another album’s worth of droning Black Metal in the Burzum vein. I’ve always had a soft spot in my blackened heart for this band. I’m not sure why, but even though I pretty much know what I’m getting from Pagan Hellfire, I always seem to have gotten some enjoyment out of everything that Incarnatus has put out so far. On the Path to Triumph is no different. It isn’t anything that I haven’t heard before from other bands in the genre, but I like it. The music is pretty standard repetitive power chord riffing with basic song structures. There are some change-ups in the style, but ultimately, like everything else the band has released, it points back to Burzum as the primary influence. There are bits of traditional Heavy Metal creeping in, like the main riff of “The Fire of a New Dawn,” which helps to give the song that additional boost that makes your head bang. Incarnatus does a lot to break up the basic “play the same chord fifteen times and then play another one fifteen times and then go back to the first chord another fifteen times, repeat until the song is over” format. He is good at his work, playing all of the instruments (even the drums) and doing the vocals. Over the years, he’s honed his craft, and while Burzum has languished in mediocrity since Varg was released from prison, Pagan Hellfire has quietly filled that niche pretty nicely.
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