Anatomy - Where Angels Die (1996)

   During its long lasting journey, black metal haven't been the same successful on other continents like in Europe, especially in its traditional form. It's enough to think about the music of North and South American bands, where black metal mostly showed up in mixed form as an influence on the side of thrash or death metal features. The situation was seemingly similar in Australia too, but time proved that it only took more time for the genre to spark wider interest.

    In Anatomy's music not only more black metal influences could have been heard than what was usual at bands outside Europe, but black metal features had dominant proportion. The themes, the noisy, atmospheric sound, the vocal style, and even the assistance of keyboards were quite evident references. Compared to other '90s or older black metal records "Where Angels Die" sounded better and maybe therefore way more aggressive. The small distinguishing differences as a whole seemed to be enough to push the scale slightly into the direction of death metal too. Giving a listen to the album decades later might give the impression that it's somewhere between raw black and war metal. Despite the keyboards of course, since they counted as some new, modern characteristic instrument, that have been involved from the second wave of black metal and widely spread by its symphonic subgenre. However, on the side of Sadistik Exekution,  Anatomy also had determining role in forming the notoriously unfriendly, wild and extreme sound of Australian black metal.