Review: Great Vast Forest - From the Dark Times to the Black Metal Legions | |||||||
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From the Dark Times to the Black Metal Legions | |||||||
Label: Independent Year released: 2017 Duration: 40:33 Tracks: 10 Genre: Black Metal Rating: Review online: February 20, 2018 Reviewed by: Sargon the Terrible |
Readers' Rating How do you rate this release? Rated 2.73/5 (54.55%) (11 Votes)
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It only took 15 years for this band to put out the follow-up to their little-heard debut Battletales and Songs of Steel. I was pretty sure this band, like so many other obscure bands, would simply slip beneath the surface and vanish. But after a long wait that saw only the release of an EP and a demo compilation, we finally have the grandly-titled second album. Great Vast Forest are primitive in a way that few black metal bands are any longer. Rather than the low-fi grinding of the endless Darkthrone wannabes, Great Vast Forest chose to plant their flag in the early-2000s era of Emperor worship, plotting a course somewhere in the vicinity of In the Nightside Eclipse. The guitars are a bit too smooth, there are keys all over the place, and the songs make a lot of room for battle sound clips and howling winds. As on their debut, there is not really anything here to argue that Great Vast Forest are a great band, but I just like them anyway, as they hit a spot not many modern bands are hitting. If you miss bands like Berserk, Argath, and Sigma Draconis, then this is one to check out, as it is a kind of nostalgia hit by this point. I should also mention that the cover art for this is one of the most bad-ass illustrations I have ever seen on an album cover. Awesome. |
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