Cursed Again & Talking to God

Album Review

Rarely one's first choice when looking for quality black metal bands, England maintains that notoriety thanks to Birmingham's yawn-inducing Frost. Revisiting all the same old tricks already perpetrated with greater talent and originality by the likes of Darkthrone and Mayhem over a decade before, this corpse paint-loving trio quite simply delivers too little, too late, making the band's Cursed Again debut both unsatisfying and largely unnecessary in today's far more evolved and sophisticated extreme metal world. Still, if raw, dirty, and primitive black metal in the early-'90s Scandinavian tradition is a particularly favorite style of yours, Frost's frightful sonic corruptions might be just what you are looking for.