This kind of dumb album title and horrible cover hides my favorite black metal album. Craft's "fuck the universe" is one of the most listenable yet still legitimate albums of the genre. The pristine production just makes the tones and songwriting stick out. To paint you a music nerd picture: I heard a Russian Circles album the other day and had to take a minute to see if it was some Craft album I hadn't heard. That's how well played and recorded this stuff is. This was my "a ha!" black metal release. I was trying to get into the genre after being seduced by its grim history. I was listening to benchmark releases by benchmark bands (and in that process was asked why I was listening to some screaming guy vacuum up pennies) but this was the first bm album that I LIKED. I've since become a connesuir of this style of music and can appreciate all of its darkened corners (except Dimmu Borger who are the icp of black metal, but I digress). This album was my gateway drug to all that intoxicating grimness.
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