Belphegor - The Last Supper (1995)

   Belphegor debuted as a deviant black/death metal band that reminded more to the style of Impaled Nazarene and old Marduk, than to Norwegian black metal, though lately they became popular and the most influental Austrian metal band because of creating more analogy with the Norwegian style.
  The band's early period was more compromise-less, and the early '90s death metal wave also had some influence on their music. The way how they mixed black and death metal was still different from what war metal bands did, and even though the previously mentioned bands have been only into black metal, the similarity is evident. Belphegor crossed the line that Impaled Nazarene and Marduk didn't by involving some death metal themes and common switchings to deep growling vocal style. The atmosphere also had secondary role, the devastating sound took complete advantage. That's really like a tiny difference, since if it's about intensity these bands have been on the same level. The main view is endlessly sick and insane, the lyrics are covering gorgeous topics as satanism, gore and perversions. "The Last Supper" also could be taken as a further step from the atmospheric/experimental black, a herald of raw black metal, though the band lately have shown opposite tendencies.