Highest charting Black Metal album on this list. However, if you are expecting something mired in complex ethereal textures then actually you would be wrong. “Absentia” is what a Black Metal album by Iron Maiden would sound like. It is a straight splice between Traditional and Black Metal and cleverly manages to keep the best bits from both.

2020 TOP 100Author : Stewart Lucas22 November 2020Blaze Of Sorrow, Absentia, TOP 100, 2020, 20-01Comment