Carpathian Forest - Fuck You All

I sometimes wonder how serious some of these black metal bands take themselves. Their website url, which lacks much information, stands for "True Norwegian Black Metal." Well if that means generic sounding black metal, then I guess that label is correct. I vaguely remember liking their previous effort, Defending The Throne Of Evil, which is why I decided to check out this latest release. Although I may have to go back and listen to that album again, I remember it being somewhat laid back and even a bit humourous. It was just a fun listen, for a black metal, album that didn't really take itself to seriously and just played some catchy black metal tunes. I'll have to listen to it again and see if I get the same impression.

That being said, this album isn't giving a similar impression. Even though the album title and some song names are much sillier, the album seems too serious and submits to the mostly bland true black metal formula. The singer does stray a bit from the standard black metal voice with some background yelling, but it doesn't really add anything, and comes out sounding a bit ridiculous.

4/10 Blah, black metal.