• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4
• 5

From the name, you would expect this to be an atmospheric Black Metal band of some kind, but no, this is something very different and much more individual. This is the second album by this Danish band, who have only been around for a decade or so, and there is not much information about them. They play sprawling, melodic, Progressive Metal with somewhat epic songwriting and some really excellent musicianship. They do spice things up her and there with some harsher passages complete with guttural vocals, but just here and there. Most of the vocals on this are clean and genuinely impressive. Jon Aldara has a strong, clean voice that soars easily above the crunchy, dense arrangements, making for a definitively progressive sound that still does not quite sound like anyone else. I suppose there are elements of bands like Borknagar or the modern sound of Enslaved, but the resemblance there is not that strong. I hear a bit of Tyr and a bit of Crom, straddling that line between Power and Progressive Metal. On "Mistland" the strident riffs and hard-edged vocals remind me strongly of Primordial, so this is not a band with a simple sound. Overall I find this a startling and involving album you should not miss.