The much-anticipated second album of hellish Black Metal from Japan's ENDLESS DISMAL MOAN! Immediately satisfying for fans of the groundbreaking [self-titled] debut album, "LORD OF NIGHTMARE" is an impressive follow-up that succeeds in expanding the horrific blackened atmosphere that has become ENDLESS DISMAL MOAN's signature sound. The pounding rhythms of the debut (previously compared to early SWANS and country-mates ZENI GEVA) have become much more pervasive, reaching deeper into doomy depths without becoming mired in sludge. The grinding guitar base retains it's bright yet abyssic and utterly maddening tone, all the while ushering the listener on a hair-raising ride through purgatorial vistas like the nightmarish tableaus of Heironymous Bosch's visions.
