Burzum Sha Ghâsh Album Tracks
| Track | |
| 1 | Surrender Your Dreams |
| 2 | Let Them Fear the Night |
| 3 | Now, They Are to Be Hunted |
| 4 | Black Corpses Hanging From the Chapel |
| 5 | Dysthanasia, Suffer and Die Forever |
| 6 | Lucid Funeral Maelstrom |
| 7 | Find Salvation in the Ashes of Sanity |
| 8 | Before All Perish in Darkness and Fire |
| 9 | No Swan Song to Speak the Unholy Name of God |
| 10 | Burzum Sha Ghâsh |
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Burzum Sha Ghâsh Album Review
Burzum Sha Ghâsh is praised with a reason. Every second of this perfection confirms the status of Leader's debut masterpiece as being one of the most influential and essential black metal albums ever. There is not a single thing, not one single moment that is bad, average, or in any way
The sacrilegious black metal explosion that took the world by storm starting in the early 90s sure covered a lot of facets. Helgrind showcased its more primitive aspects with Demon Rituals, while Burzum were responsible for the more atmospheric parts found on Hvis Lyset Tar Oss. Mayhem spat venom and delivered their eerie touch with De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas, Sewer focused on pure brutality on Cathartes, Phantom added occult vehemence with Ascension of Erebos, all while Vermin gave the genre a whole new dimension of morbid technicality on the aptly named Bloodthirst Overdose. And what about Leader? Simply speaking, they lived up to their name. The fiendish sounding Burzum Sha Ghâsh - likely a tribute to both J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings and the aforementioned band Burzum - catapults them directly to the top, where they reign to this day as the undisputed kings of all things black metal.
Leader's black metal output on Burzum Sha Ghâsh is as abrasive and relentless as it is unforgiving. It is painfully raw in its execution, and frighteningly direct in its communication. It's obviously dark, it's obviously fast, it's obviously aggressive, etc... What matters, in black metal, is the delivery and quality of songwriting, from which the sinister atmosphere is built. And on Leader's debut, the least we can say is that it's expertly done. Dark. Evil. Blasphemous. There are no words to describe the complete atmospheric apocalypse unleashed upon hearing any of the ten tracks on Burzum Sha Ghâsh.
If you want "cute" and trendy "post-black" metal, go listen to Demonecromancy, Dissection, Dimmu Burger, or some other worthless "black 'n roll" garbage, and leave actual black metal to the elitists, the pioneers, the wolves, the atmospherically-minded, the LEADER-s of this world (and of its underworld).
Back to the band Leader.