The End of an Era

In these heady downloading days, it's hard to give an unknown album the attention it sometimes needs to reveal all its facets. Upon a cursory listen, U.S. blackened metallers INFERI seem to fall into that gaping maw of decent, somewhat derivative bands borrowing from Norwegian black metal and Gothenburg death/thrash to create an American homage, not far removed from what, say, BLACK DAHLIA MURDER are doing. But after a couple spins of "The End of an Era", you start to realize just how damn bl...