Immortal - Pure Holocaust 1993 [Full Album]

[@LordNibavas]

One of the best black metal albums of all time.

[@sepasepa4172]

+LordNIBAVAS брат))

[@loquendobk]

Uno de los mejores albumes de black metal de los tiempos

[@kevjones3176]

If not the best 2nd waves pinnacle

[@gottmituns9652]

this aske and freezing moon but the demo version with dead on vocals

[@Hervarar]

Yes, it is

[@brutalbob842]

Does anyone else here find black metal calming? For me something about it and how it flows calms me.

[@IcyScythe]

+Punk zombie Yes it's relaxing to me as well. (unless it's more to the trashy side of things, which gets me amped)

[@brutalbob842]

Guy Fh That happened to me once! XD

[@WIrehireKTF]

+Punk zombie That what Black Metal is about, creating an atmosphere, thats why they generally dont use solos. Ive read in an Interview with Varg Vikernes, the guy behind Burzum that each song is supposed to be/work like a spell. by creating this distorting and yet mesmerizing atmosphere they did exactly that. Songs like "Dunkelheit" from Burzums Album Filosofem "will soothe you by force", at least thats how i feel when listening to it, there is now way one wont calm down if he really engages the music.

[@brutalbob842]

Fischi Sounds about right. Most of the time when I listen to any kind of metal I ignore almost everything else thats going on at the moment and only focus on the music. When I listen to black metal it really feels like im in another place, like a frozen mounton top of in the middle of the woods.

[@herrschmidt412]

+Punk zombie Depends on the band for me. Maybe not Immortal, but I'll often put on a Burzum album if I'm having insomnia.

[@bmpromotion]

Good old Immortal!

[@jeanlucheriard3264]

the best album

[@deathmetalmayhem7021]

Black Metal Promotion FUCKING IMMORTAL

[@lexbeltran1354]

Without a doubt, one of their best albums. Didn't Erik commit suicide awhile ago?

[@garyrossiterjr6874]

The best Immortal album in my opinion

[@sathanaful]

FUCK YEA!

[@saltysampo]

The drumming is just incredible. Props to Abbath for being a metal renaissance man.

[@Firewaltzwithme]

he played it slow then they sped up the tape, thats why its so high pitch. abbath never could play this in real time

[@jimmyfingers227]

@@Firewaltzwithme that actually never crossed my mind lol I always, thought it was just somebody else playing them uncredited as it was speculated for years . What's your source for that info?

[@tt1147]

@@jimmyfingers227 A number of people who know Abbath confirmed it on Zimorog's "Who recorded Drums on Pure Holocaust" video on KZbin.

[@Babaji77777]

@@Firewaltzwithme I always that that for Battles aswell. But maybe he'll hammer played as he was in a film clip off the album

[@Babaji77777]

Norwegian elite

[@ManicalVale]

the atmosphere on this record is unbelievable

[@RichardWolfe79]

VÆRM Koponen My favorite Immortal album. It has a dark feel to it.

[@ForcesOfOdin]

They sound frozen. It's pretty awesome. Pretty damn good time to be alive.

[@pedrorafael1952]

A capa ja diz tudo

[@kevjones3176]

Truly captures the cold

[@jorglauruschkat8185]

I was gonna say that but then saw your comment, lol

[@lethalpunchjabtone]

1:05 A barbecue. I'm going to party 'till I dieeeeeeee

[@MetalAlive]

:DD

[@cristianriveralevin]

John Paul Blanchette HAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHA!!!!!

[@NeonAstralOfficial]

LMAO

[@lelxrv]

lol

[@AbigorRealm69]

Legendary...

[@avsky837]

what i love about black metal is that there;s so much going on at one time that it almost sounds ambient with the sheer saturation.

[@letzte_maahsname]

+J Earnest And I thought I'd be the only one experinecing this :P

[@harindranvenkatesh]

+J Earnest Perfect choice to words to precisely describe the effect. Great album.

[@TheLoveAlbatrossTube]

I thought about this quite a lot, but never found such great words for it as you have. I would say it also linked to another important about black metal. The great thing is that, especially on this album, the lyrics often deal mainly with descriptions of majestic landscapes. In a way it's odd to capture the awe that such unresponsive landscapes impose on us in such heavy and thundering music - you would expect something more like dark ambient. But taking your comment into account, perhaps we can say that black metal somehow captures that ambience in the 'sheer saturation'. The music, as it were, is so full of speed and noise, that it actually refers to a sense of silence - the silence of a Scandinavian forest covered in snow.

[@vyl6781]

that is awesome . I never thought about that.

[@avsky837]

I'm sure there's a subgenre of everything, but 'ambient black metal' to me sounds beyond redundant. So much about black metal is about the atmosphere already that having it purely instrumental would get exceedingly boring.anyway nice try at being tough.

[@tb4234]

Something I always found hilarious.... Bass, Vocals : Abbath Doom Occulta ! ! ! ! ! Guitar : Demonaz Doom Occulta ! ! ! ! ! Drums : ..............................................."Erik"

[@johnlewis4945]

lmao dude i thought that was halarious aswell

[@lapinzaza33]

grimm

[@ephesusrh4780]

+Spirit Crusher i sawfpo'kvea

[@COAXION]

+DA PT Erik grimm

[@حمزة-ف1ج]

+DA PT lol

I'm playing this and I actually feel the temperature dropping. One of my favourite black metal albums

[@spiderman233]

Good bait brah.

[@hatiwolfheart5270]

Yep. It's already cold but dammit, it feels even colder while listening to this...

[@josh_fisher]

I feel warmer, perhaps the liquor is too strong... Or perhaps warmth is what you are meant to feel. Hahahaha!

[@kevjones3176]

Temperature! Play this an Emperors Night Side then its majestically cold....throw in vinglgr veldr then you are in divine realms!

[@onutube6392]

I can feel it getting warmer. Oh wait, nah that's just florida

[@Mr_DOHC]

In my opinion...their best album!

[@raymondt.1880]

Mr_DOHC and there first album too!

[@raymondt.1880]

THERE FIRST 3 ALBUMS ARE GOOD.

[@hadesdescent6664]

Prefer Battles!

[@BrecMadak]

First album is rather a Bathory rip off

[@crnozlo1994]

I also prefer Battles in the north.

[@anothergoogleaccount4500]

This is the closest to perfection a genre has ever reached...and this was only their second record

[@Heroic_Flamethrower_Operator]

Yeah, isn't that crazy!! 🤘🤘

[@andrewslaptop7682]

They had some demos and eps but they actually had another band called old funeral that was black metal and they still killed it

[@ShadovvV]

Nah. There were far more Black Metal bands that did it even better. Impaled Nazarene for example, which I always liked better than Immortal. But there were many, many more worthy of capturing the genre.

[@ChannelBerpindah]

What are u talking about. Earliest albums were usually the best if we were talking about extreme metal. The sincerity and the pure youth energy.

[@adopodrinje1499]

well, Darkthrone has many many good 90s albums...

[@NordiskArv]

This album is one of my absolute faves of the BM 90's. Much better than their later works. Saw Immortal live in Copenhagen 1994, they were so great.

[@stevestewart1855]

Best Black metal album of all time!! I still remember back in the day when I first heard this and it blew me away!! Greetings from Canada!

[@agentdoodo299]

Love that frog on vocals.

[@sepasepa4172]

+Jamz Hatefeel )))))))))))))))))))))))))))

[@mindmanifestations2036]

+Jamz Hatefeel That "frog" is now a prince

[@-Vitalis-]

Actually, It's a grim and frostbitten Popeye.

[@agentdoodo299]

I Have Candies In My Van True.

[@-Vitalis-]

Jamz Hatefeel Oh, I'm Abbath the viking maaan I'm Abbath the viking maaan My last name is finnish Cause Sweden is finished I'm Abbath the viking maaan

[@doomfaring]

listening to this album brings back memories from lost soul fragments. The sorrow is great and sweet at the same time. Black Metal helps its listener to rise above himself and to take a brave look into the pain one experiences in life. Long live Immortal, this bloody album and black metal.

[@bernabefernandeztouceda7188]

+doomfaring u da shit man i appreciate u

[@nupraptorthementalist3306]

This is a great aphorism.

[@Ein_krieger]

Undoubtedly one of the best Black Metal album recorded. A complete masterpiece, from the beggining 'til the last song. Whoever dislikes this band must stay far away from Black metal, because this people have NO idea of what truly is Black Metal about.

[@jlstuphph]

NeroHLVT Interesting enough if one bothered reading Varg Vikernes' interpretation of BM. He said that the primal idea of BM is for the artists to have their own interpretation of what the music is all about. It was originally never thought to be a closed format about doings things in a certain way. Originally it was a backlash against death metal which had its sound cookie-cuttered for semi-commercial purposes. Black metal was supposed to go against that view but then the late 90's happened. And we are now stuck with corpse paint and Satan. So much for that idea.

[@Ein_krieger]

JayElStuf futSlEyaJ I understand what you say, and I don't disagree of Varg's point of view. I really believe that, on Black Metal, musicians must free their spirit and let it flows through imagination and creativity, but this condition of free and creative spirit that the musician reaches also brings him to a kind of "point of no return", or, in other words, once awakened, he is no longer the same he used to be. The old chains, which ones he used to be arrested, are now broken and left behind, and with that I mean all the kind of moral, dogmas and ideologies that stuck the spirit and preclude it from evolve. So, I may not have been very clear on my first comment, but when I say that Black Metal is a limited kind of music and ideology, that is what I actually mean. I hope you can understand me and forgive me for my bad english, man. Hugs!

[@paulbarton4395]

They were only good when Demonaz was writing the music, when Abbath took over guitar (and took over the band) they went downhill

[@oumgia5643]

@@paulbarton4395 Abbath writes very catchy riffs, melodic, but it is more a blackened heavy metal. Listen to how raw, intense and mean Northern Chaos Gods sounds since Demonaz came back. Really two different styles. Northern Chaos wins.

[@saxofonist0133]

..ideologies... i say Poison and Venom.

[@demolazer]

My favourite BM album ever, it's perfect.

[@IcyScythe]

this is a truly incredible album

[@sergeysoprunovvv9656]

so pure...so cold...

[@asquideatingdough5347]

Transilvanian*

[@alx3903]

lol

[@chilldeen4590]

wrong place, but acceptable

[@lucamagnavacchi9640]

It is a wonderful album and unreachable. Unpredictable, deep, dark, it makes me shiver for 20 years.

[@jharmon8729]

The Sun No Longer Rises is my favorite black metal song! This album is still amazing more than 2 decades later

[@Rottensparrow]

Jake Harmon that is probably worst black metal song but ok.. i respect your opinion

[@jharmon8729]

Worst black metal song ever?? I bet I could tell you one thats worse lol

[@vanadiumfembot6181]

Jake Harmon I agree with you Jake. I love that song.

[@filthyfilter2798]

JJJ HHH So True my friend! Awesome album!

[@judasjuicebox]

+Naudir you don't know anything about underground black metal obvioisly

[@tylog4169]

I will miss Immortal.

[@supernoise]

A jewel of Black Metal

[@jasonstuart6594]

This is black metal at it's finest. So dark, cold, and brooding. And the atmosphere on this album

[@tvlmagoo]

"As the Eternity Opens" is the most sinister and darkness music in all BM history.

[@lydieluck7753]

I’ve tried the newer “black metal” but always end up going back to stuff like this because it’s just so much more raw and aggressive!

[@raymondt.1880]

AGREED/

[@williamsmith666]

That's because modern black metal is hot garbage ripping off the classics of old with plastic production and no sense of atmosphere, rage and darkness.

[@Mitchery]

@@williamsmith666 Modern Metal music is garbage blah blah blah, we fuckin' get it...

[@pastaiscool160]

@@williamsmith666 there’s a lot of good black metal nowadays

[@comesect]

@@pastaiscool160 could you name a band please?

[@MikaDamaged]

A classic, a masterpiece, a golden piece!

[@Vladi306]

I love loud snares with reverb. Unffff 🤘 These older black metal albums are really inspiring. Everytime I hear stuff like this I get that "Hey! I wanna write stuff like that!" sensation.

[@johansld4506]

Same. But at the moment of writing, my ideas are gone, or what i'm doing is just not as good like what i have on mind. Black Metal, at the end of all is not that easy.

[@oumgia5643]

@@johansld4506 Do what they all do----put down anything on tape,.....go back to it later. Jeff Hanneman of Slayer once said he didn't play guitar for 7 or 8 months at all after a tour; he just watched TV [before he died]. Then fiddles around, then goes to his basement, plays riffs over and over, records them, leaves them, goes back to them. Then tries it out with the band. If it works, they make the riffs into a song. Kerry King said some riffs were around for 15 years! before they could work them into the overall sound of the album they were making. There's no magic, just don't give up, just stop for a while. Go back. Hit record. Remember, Fenriz said, they were so impressed with Bathory, they just kinda made Darkthrone into their own Bathory---this is after listening to Bathory for 8 years [84 to 92]. Black Metal cares nothing on time---when it happens, it happens.

[@johansld4506]

@@oumgia5643 Thank you so much!! I didn't know that about Jeff, maybe i should try it...lack of creativity is shit. Thank you, again!

[@oumgia5643]

@@johansld4506 cool

[@PeteUnlimited]

one of the best black metal albums since today

[@TrapDaily]

can't stop listening to immortal forgot how sick they were even this old stuff🔥

[@johngalt2466]

ONLY their old stuff

[@Vomitbukkake]

Trap start posting content again

[@TrapDaily]

@@Vomitbukkake ok 😈

[@oscarmurillo3198]

this is metal.

[@pandaath]

no. Nirvana was real metal.

[@pandaath]

***** Creed was grindcore, not metal. Learn the difference.

[@fourat9710]

+TheSmashingTesticles wow ,so nirvana huh !?

[@fourat9710]

what fucking genre

[@pandaath]

fourat garrach Metal

[@lucamagnavacchi9640]

Album meraviglioso e inarrivabile. Imprevedibile, profondo, oscuro, mi fa venire i brividi da 20 anni.

[@snyman12]

All these fucking years and I have missed how fuckkkiinnng genious dark piece of art this album is. So damn dark, cold, inhumane. As great as art can be with a guitar.

[@WinterForWolves]

R.I.P Erik Brødreskift (aka Grim) (December 23, 1969 - October 4, 1999)

[@tausif19]

How did he die?

[@WinterForWolves]

Tausif Ahmed Overdose bro.

[@raymondt.1880]

Grimm was an Incredible Black Metal Drummer Up There With Frost and HellHammer my 2 Favorite Drummers from Norway.

[@maskimxul7277]

@@tausif19 Overdose!

[@jakemoran9655]

It started snowing when I turned this album on

[@derjeniche5409]

Not many black metal albums have this dark and cold atmosphere and such great songwriting. This is among the best and far ahead of its time for 93!

[@vasilispasxalis1893]

One of the best BM albums of all time!Black Metal to the passage smashing everything!What to say about the ICY and MAJESTIC vocals of ABBATH and Typhoon ERIK on drums?When talking on a NORWEGIAN BM the first thing that will come to our mind is the ABBATH form and IMMORTAL, without i want to unterestimate no other group for his offer!HAIL FROM LAKEDAIMONKING!!

[@Possesssed666]

Just a note: I'm enjoying the discussion board that has created itself it upon this video's comment log. It's much more interesting that the typical banter about how great the music is or how grim Norwegian black metal (once) was...Keep up the feedback please, fellow youtubers

[@ForcesOfOdin]

Such a masterpiece. This is the stuff that makes life worth clinging to.

[@666SatanicGoat]

Excellent Classic Black Metal

[@cursegar]

I feel like it's actually insane how good this album is, particularly when you turn the sound up enough to notice the subtleties in the drums (something people should do when listening to metal imo). Songwriting is superb in that each riff and rhythmic change seems to flow into another, a style I greatly enjoy. I think I physically exclaimed "wow" after the slow part of "Storming through Red Clouds" (about 18:04) - I thought "wouldn't it be great if they just restated an earlier portion exactly here" and then it happened right after lol. Shame bands don't make stuff like this and Altars of Madness anymore, it seems.

[@zachhosch4386]

One of the few good riff driven black metal albums. Abbath is a mastermind

[@spacealienjesus709]

I can feel the cold Nordic wind freezing me to death.. Classic BM album...

[@ManuelMartinez-pd9sj]

Abbath is a pretty good drummer. Abbath is awesome. /,,/

[@TheLordGoat]

Abbath is a speed demon.

[@jaimearielarmijoloyola5512]

Yeah, insane blast beats..... and how he plays guitar.... Damn!! He's a machine.

[@ironhammer8935]

Jaime Ariel Armijo Loyola And don't forget that he plays bass too.

[@hemanroczko1799]

... and the vocals :)

[@ManuelMartinez-pd9sj]

His vocals on his early demo are awesome.

[@joaomarreiros4906]

The Sun No Longer Rises, I really don´t know how many times I listened to that song the first time I got the album. I still listen to it.

[@DarksaberForce]

The intro riffs are very addictive.

[@vargulver]

Hard to believe I've been listening to this album for twenty years and it's still fucking jaw droppingly amazing.

[@nettvshumen]

One of the ten albums of great importance for the development of the black metal scene.

[@bluewinter6660]

One of the best black metal albums of all time. Essential and perfectly played.

[@hughbetcha436]

Their best!!!

[@panostsaleridis5243]

A Masterpiece of Black Metal!!! Greetings from Greece!!!!

[@camiloth9953]

Classic Black Metal!!

[@DarknessUnresolved]

Every time it snows...

[@evertonluis8620]

Um clássico e puro black metal!!!

[@OscarMachado-jz2ku]

Meu preferido deles tenho o CD

[@tvojastara6664]

masterpiece

[@joshuademianeuk2167]

So many can try imitate, so little can capture.

[@nicholasshade]

I love Black Metal.🖤 I love Immortal.🖤 I love the picture of them.🖤 I love their face paint. 🖤 I love their sound. 🖤 I'm definitely going to have to buy their CDs. I've been listening to them on my phone. 📱

[@azathothsothoth2029]

My first black metal album.

[@777Eliyahu]

this album is a pure masterpiece

[@rustypadhraigdiarmuidseano3192]

Raw black metal with clarity. PERFECTION

[@paulmarti666]

Completely epic and devastator , one of the best albums of black metal history. truly amazing vocals

[@stefanolevarato8289]

this LP is like a storm in a open sea...

[@Mitchery]

Absolutely!

[@Rednasyl28]

I'm at the end of the video now... Glad I listened to it from start to finish. Especially like the final song and it's riffs. Thank you for uploading.

[@atalazizi6729]

Ive heard many black metal albums, but this is somewhere else

[@SODOMICBAPTISM]

...I BELIEVE!!! This is the Immortal that we all miss now...R.I.P Immortal

[@AnonymousGUYSchannel]

This is so addicting

[@hermanoduarte]

"Pure Holocaust is the second album by Norwegian black metal band Immortal. It was released on November 1, 1993, on Osmose Productions. It is generally faster sounding than its predecessor Diabolical Fullmoon Mysticism. The lyrics focus mainly on ice, snow, and fantasy landscapes. It is the first album to feature Abbath on drums. The album was released as a standard CD, as a limited LP on Osmose Productions (which was reissued in 2005), and as a limited edition picture disc in 1998. All lyrics written by Demonaz; all music composed by Abbath and Demonaz. Abbath Doom Occulta - vocals, bass, drums Demonaz Doom Occulta - guitar Grim is credited for drums on the album and appears on the cover, however, drums were played by Abbath

[@henrywalton5967]

Shocked how good the production is on this

[@tingtongnidnoi]

Ground- breaking album. Never tire of these songs.

[@Hervarar]

One of my favorites Immortal riffs 28:51

[@m1r1am]

The atmosphere is just amazing. A really wicked album!!! 👍

[@tingtongnidnoi]

"a ravens claws lifted towards the sky is the sign for the norse horde to ride,a sign for the norse horde to ride,is the way for our enimies to die"

[@raymondt.1880]

A Black Metal Classic. True Cold Dark and They we're on top with This and D.F.M. my favorite Norwiegion Black Metal Band.

[@rodolfo8355]

Playing Skyrim or Witcher 3 (in Skellige islands) while listening to this !!

[@nicholasmorling1076]

Silent hill or resident evil too!

[@nicholasmorling1076]

In New Zealand

[@Mitchery]

Or Demon's/Dark Souls or Bloodborne :D

[@katastrophickhaos]

I fvkn love this band! Immortal rules!

[@HiddenFormula]

I can see why some see this as their best release. On first listen I found this a bit too discordant and chaotic compared to Diabolical Fullmoon Mysticism and the later albums, but once you start to notice the subtle melodies in amongst all the discordance riffing it becomes quite a unique and thrilling listening experience. It has that atmospheric occult vibe of their debut, but much more sinister, aggressive and relentless.

[@puberis]

Thanks for the nice upload! Been listening to it at work the last couple days. I'll definitely be buying this next time I go CD shopping!

[@vyl6781]

the sound in this is more colder than the previous album.

[@wokffan123]

For me the best Black Metal album ever!

[@MasterChef1999]

Pure Masterpiece.! Perfect!!

[@yugang08]

Not sure why, but immortal and black metal music used to scare me when i was in my early teens. Later on in my teens, i got used to it. No longer scared or shocked me but i still had a problem (for a lack of a better word) getting into the music. Now i've come to appreciate some of it for the past 5 years. Thanks for the upload to so i could re-visit immortal once again.

[@soadxjuan]

Cada vez que escucho este disco me gusta mas

[@ilymorality4726]

Fav album of all time 🤟🏻 immortal rules

[@reignofterrorzion3211]

Great album! Classic Immortal!

[@gilgameshmesopotamia9522]

As the Eternity Opensss....!!! Simply Powerfull...!!

[@ChannelBerpindah]

This album always managed to make me imagine walking alone in the artic.

[@jorglauruschkat8185]

that record is a milestone after the first record. THAT is Immortal

[@sailorpsycho]

This and "At the Heart of winter" to me, the best from immortal!!

[@rashidabdelghafur5378]

The best Immortal album!

[@raymondt.1880]

Rashid Abdel Ghafur this and D.F.M. are both like book Ends

[@goatmoonwarmaster4641]

After diabolical full moon misticism

[@sepasepa4172]

@@goatmoonwarmaster4641 да)

[@humantacos9800]

This was an interesting departure from Kermit's 1970 hit, Bein' Green; But with Jim Henson "pulling the strings" you never know what kind of shenanigans he's going to come up with.

[@georgek6181]

fuck off

[@SonOfTamriel]

You loved it

[@christinecsanko5726]

Human Tacos love immortal and old mans child

[@christinecsanko5726]

Im a fan of everything from sabbath priest maiden to slayer mercyful fate morbid angel to dimmu borgir l freakin love immortal ,old mans child to destruction,kreator accept,etc......metal forever

[@luis_punisher9045]

I couldnt slept last nite, its a misty mourning and i feel so kult listening to this while im getting ready to sleep before the sun rises.

[@daalberithfunebre3796]

But sun no longer rises!

[@Mosiowaty]

30:01 riff ripped from Star Wars Imperial March! No way :D

[@KevinT2553]

I hear it now, that's fucking awesome!

[@TheAstralftw]

i noticed that 15years ago when i was listening this kind of music :D by friend that was immortal fan didnt believe me

[@physmath9386]

@@TheAstralftw Lol I've noticed that borrowing during the first listening of the song.

[@memethulhu3037]

30:01

[@dailywarcraftreforged9816]

So if you play it slower you ll hear the march?

[@vladmihalca6402]

I rarely come across such good drum work in black metal..

[@MajorenSnor]

Still amazing after 30 years

[@Svenko1982]

Absolutely great piece of old true black.

[@grevennazg1204]

Fudido...sem palavras pra esse album ,a bateria esta impecavel,os vocais crus juntamente com as guitas e todo o resto que forma essa obra unica e classica ! Um grande classico do genero !

[@MrMopeium]

I got heaps into black metal about 6/7 years ago, loved malsaint, xenophobia, darkthrone, but never really gave immortal a proper listen until now, i knew of them just never bothered to listen to much of their stuff. i must say im quite impressed

[@azurinn666]

Hail Immortal, 1 Milion Views :D

[@aleksiojala5473]

One of the best black metal album covers ever

[@everyonelovesATTA]

30:00 Star Wars theme :)

[@Mitchery]

👍

[@jon9274]

One of the greatest BM albums of all time.