ANOREXIA NERVOSA Drudenhaus Pic Disc Vinyl LP (2000)

French symphonic black metal was doing something genuinely deranged in the late 90s, and Anorexia Nervosa were at the bleeding edge of it. Drudenhaus, their 2000 full-length, is the sound of a band treating orchestral grandeur and absolute filth as two sides of the same coin, which is the correct approach.

This sits in that particular corner of the dark aesthetic where beauty and brutality stop pretending they're different things. If you came up on Emperor's In the Nightside Eclipse or Dimmu Borgir's mid-period excess and want something that hits harder and stranger, this is the record. Picture disc format means the thing looks as unhinged as it sounds, which is a bonus for the wall or the shelf.

Full length album on picture disc vinyl LP. French pressing, 2000. Death/black/symphonic metal.

Fans of: Emperor, Dimmu Borgir, Cradle of Filth, Graveworm, Fleshgod Apocalypse.