(Excerpted from Terrorizer, Issue #57:)

CARPATHIAN FOREST TRIUMPH OF DEATH - Norway's darkest sons Carpathian Forest have finally returned from self-imposed exile with the release of their first full-length album 'Black Shining Leather'. It's an unutterably malign musical masterpiece, as bleak and grim as the warped minds from whence it came, as Gregory Whalen discovered when he spoke to the band's mouthpiece Nattefrost.

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