Picture disc edition. Under the Sign of the Black Mark begins much as the last album ended, with haggard, simplistic thrash played with energetic abandon and standard issue metal lyrics ("Massacre", "Woman of Dark Desires"), and if the album had continued in that vein it would have been no more notable than its two predecessors, great as those albums are in their own right. However, "Call From the Grave" kicks off a streak of leaner, nastier epics that recast the sound of evil in heavy metal music. Quorthon's shrieking, already spare and hands down the raspiest in the genre, turns downright maniacal here, a truly groundbreaking peal of evangelical hate. "Call From the Grave" is nothing short of the Ground Zero of Black Metal.