I haven't heard many decent or above-average Black Metal albums hailing from Norway for quite a while now. I think most of the most recent BM bands that are from Norway always lack something special, something to stand out from the thousands of other BM bands we have these days. Disiplin' second album, Anti-Life, doesn't redefine the genre, but the good thing they have are riffs. Just some solid BM riffs from start to end, with no keyboard wankery or anything like that. I have to admit, I didn't get bored once when I listened to this album, even the third time I listened to it. Even the slow parts are interesting and scary in their own way (see \"11\").

The songs on here that provide chaotic BM riffs are \"Anti-Life\" and \"The Arsonist Academy\". The Arsonist Academy kicks off with an insane and chaotic solo, which is then followed by another excellent riff. In fact, this whole song has excellent riffs throughout. The vocals are extremely evil, but they don't add or remove feelings to the music. I feel the focus of this album is mainly riffs, anways. \"Anti-Life\" is even crazier, with some evil and low spoken vocals during the breaks, with some echoing guitars. Most of the other songs featured on this album are also like the 2 songs I just mentioned, just not THAT good. Still a great album though, and i'm sure i'll keep this one playing again for quite some time.

[This review was first published on the now defunct scandinavianmetal.info webzine]