Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Stakes are raised and battle lines drawn as Sirenia release their new album Perils of the Deep Blue. What the Scandinavians do, the continentals especially in the newly emerging metal markets of Italy, France and further abroad try to outmatch and Britain’s Black Sabbath, still very much one of the Gods, tops with rightful fervor. It is the release of Perils of the Deep Blue that propels the Norwegian band into the realms that Ozzy Osbourne, Geezer Butler and Tony Iommi have claimed that makes the album so intense and laden with open promise.