I.C.E – “Apocalyptic End in White”
This band is a bunch of winter, snow and ice-obsessed blasting black metallers. Imperial Crystalline Entombment, they are. I ended up liking this album because the production is raw, but without that crappy, garage punk “production” that latter-day Darkthrone goes for. To me, it sounds like I.C.E. loves Immortal’s “Pure Holocaust”, the riffs are definitely black, as are the vocals, in the Quorthon/Abbath style. The blasting sounds good and the songs are memorable and distinctive. If you only buy masterpieces, then this might not convince you. It’s between a B and a B+, a good album.