Origin:	Finland
Genres:	Black Metal

Black Crucifixion

It's been quite a journey for Black Crucifixion. Back in their formative days (they first came together in 1989) they were as true kvlt black metal as they come, and in fact several members of another old-school Finnish black metal band, Beherit, were seen here. An EP was released in 1993, but after that they went quiet, eventually embarking on a ten-year recording session for their proper full-length album, Faustian Dream, released in 2006 (an early demo did get re-released in the interim, surfacing in 1999). By this time Black Crucifixion had shed practically all of its black metal connections, the band now employing a dark, bleak style sometimes in the early doomdeath mold (though the vocals are clean), at other times recalling prime Celtic Frost, and still other times (perhaps most often) an early gothic styling a la older Moonspell or newer Sentenced. It's fairly originally and a compelling listen, with a rather primitive production adding a bit of old-school charm. Hopefully it won't be another decade before a new album appears.