This CD is available for trade.
A solid example of not being able to judge a CD by its cover. Nothing about this disc--from the layout to the odd jogging inside a pipe(?) cover art to the band name to the songtitles to the ridiculous album title--even hints that it's black metal, and even saying that, you'd expect it to be some hipster band or something overly avant-garde. This is a solo project of total mid-'90s-Scandinavian-style BM by Andrew LaBarre, previously of Impaled/Ghoul fame and recorded around the time he was in both bands. The guitarwork is quite good here, as to be expected from an ex-member of those bands. Even having just listened to the album, I'm still having trouble grasping that this is fairly standard black metal because it seems so incompatible with the package it's presented in. The intro and outro aren't typical of the genre, but that's seriously the only audio deviation from black metal. I'm just left wondering whether the titles and such are a purposeful attempt to distance Altar the Sky from black metal cliche (I would suspect so), or whether there's some sort of story or weird concept here (the booklet offers little help).
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