Album Review: Ba'al's The Fine Line Between Heaven and Here
What do you get when you crash black metal into post-metal? Ba'al is what you get. Breakdowns, sludgy riffs, screeching vocals, and long-winding proggy passages, it's like a buffet of the best parts between Eastern and Western cuisine. It shouldn't work, but it somehow does. I was ready to go to bed, and one of the highlights of my day is to listen to an album I haven't listened to before. I have a huge queue of albums in several lists, grouped by year. But this time, I decided to trust the Spotify algorithm, and looking back at it now, I'm glad I did. Ba'al - my only exposure to the name was from the Diablo games. He's one of the three Prime Evils, specifically, Ba'al is the Lord of Destruction. That's about it. So I'm going into this cold. I'm reviewing the album, "The Fine Line Between Heaven and Here". What an impressive album title. I've always been interested in the various stories that capture the human struggle towards r...
