25 years ago on this day Storm of the Light's Bane was released. It is the second full-length album by the Swedish black metal band Dissection via Nuclear Blast Records. The album is widely considered a masterpiece and one of the best black metal albums ever written. It has had significant influence on the development of extreme metal, inspiring many bands such as Watain. The album is notable for being one of the earliest and most successful examples of a band combining black metal with the melodic death metal sound that was developing in Gothenburg around the time of this album's release. According to Metal Hammer, "While Sweden's Dissection were very much black metal in terms of ideology and atmosphere, they also featured noticeable elements of the melodic death metal movement exploding in their home country, as well as classic '80s heavy metal." Dave Schalek wrote that "the songs are cold, dark, evil and extreme." OC Weekly have described the album as "extreme and aggressive but also primeval and classically orchestrated with heavy echoes of drums and haunting melodies hidden throughout the darkness." #dissection #stormofthelightsBane #nowplaying #melodicdeathmetal #blackmetal #classicmetal #bestmetal #metalalbum #metalhead #metalart #albumart #digitalart #coverart #albumcover #album #sweden #swedishmetal #spotify #albumoftheday #recordsoftheday #recordcollection #recordoftheweek #anniversary #nuclearblastrecords https://www.instagram.com/p/CHsHGxaJAQz/?igshid=nqyg9rzg73na