''Infernal Battles'' is the first album by the
black metal
Black metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music. Common traits include fast tempos, a shrieking vocal style, heavily distorted guitars played with tremolo picking, raw (lo-fi) recording, unconventional song structures, and an emp ...
band
Deathspell Omega
Deathspell Omega is a French black metal band formed in 1998 in Poitiers. Their lyrical content deals primarily with Satanism on a metaphysical level – as the band has stated that "all other interpretations of Satan are intellectually invali ...
.
It was released in 2000 by Northern Heritage Records in a limited run of 200 vinyl copies,
then re-released in 2003 by the same label and in 2010 by End All Life Productions, both times on CD.
"Drink the Devil's Blood" was later reworked and re-recorded for their 2004 album ''
Si monvmentvm reqvires, circvmspice''. The album's second side, with tracks 5-8, is a full reissue of the band's demo ''Disciples of the Ultimate Void''.
The band note in a 2019 interview that the only songs on which they had ever used a drum machine were the first four tracks of ''Infernal Battles''.
The last four, being a re-release of their demo, featured their original drummer.
Track listing
References
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Deathspell Omega albums
2000 debut albums