Old Man's Child - Ill-Natured Spiritual Invasion

This album cover could be artwork for the Armies of Chaos in the aforementioned Warhammer game.


Old Man's Child shouldn't need much of an introduction. Galder created this band and is the main participant. He hires session musicians for recording albums and probably touring, although I have no idea if he still tours with this band. It turns out that Gene Hoglan played drums on this one. Ill-Natured Spiritual Invasion was released in 1998, before Galder eventually joined the similar sounding Dimmu Borgir. My introduction to this band was when I started hearing the more popular black metal bands, such as Dimmu Borgir. I'm not sure why its taken me this long to get around to one of their older albums such as this.

Old Man's Child is very much a more raw, stripped down, Dimmu Borgir. The songwriting and song structures are similar, its just not quite the epic grandeur that defines Dimmu Borgir. I really should compare OMC to something other than Dimmu, but I'm just drawing blanks for other bands... I really like this genre of black metal, I just haven't been listening to much of it lately. Perhaps this album will get me digging around for some of my other albums, because its typical Old Man's Child, which is definitely good.