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SHADES OF BLACK: ASHBRINGER, DRAUGUR, FYRNASK, LORD IMPALER, SEEMING EMPTINESS, STORTREGN, VERMINE

The title of the new album is Heavy Rain. I even see them replying to people auf Deutsch on their Facebook. It features cover art by Juanjo Castellano and includes guest appearances by this array of notable musicians: Steffen Kummerer Obscura, Thulcandra ; Ville Viljanen Mors Principium Est ; Simon Girard Beyond Creation ; and Vladimir Cochet Mirrorthrone, Unholy Matrimony, Weeping Birth. The music is heavy and dark and often jolting, yet it is equally resplendent in the shining, ethereal glow of its melodies. I know that there are still some very heavy hitters who will be releasing albums this year, but sometimes, you just know these things. Even when the tumult subsides, the intensity lessens not at all; the music only becomes more fraught with an atmosphere of immense and ominous threat from beyond our mundane earthly realm.

SHADES OF BLACK: ASHBRINGER, DRAUGUR, FYRNASK, LORD IMPALER, SEEMING EMPTINESS, STORTREGN, VERMINE

The vocals are also strikingly impassioned, and the chords that pulse near the end sound like triumphant trumpets in a symphonic crescendo. All the songs are very accomplished — well-written, well-performed, and well-produced. The band here is Seeming Emptiness, a one-man operation from Schönheide, Germany. . In the video that follows, Rock Overdose filmed the band performing a song from their upcoming album In Full Regalia.

SHADES OF BLACK: ASHBRINGER, DRAUGUR, FYRNASK, LORD IMPALER, SEEMING EMPTINESS, STORTREGN, VERMINE

But the opener here, 'Forbaenier', sets the mood for things to come: it's equally majestic as it is eerie, as evil as it is uplifting, and as archaic as it is modern. I better get to the bottom of that, even if lack of time is killing me these days. And after the final notes of 'Havets Kjele', the listening ritual is over, the curtain opens again like after a midnight feature in a dark movie theatre, and I can walk away a man with more wisdom than I used to have before. I think I needed to blow off some steam, but I paid severely for my fun. However, that changed just a couple of days ago when they opened for Rotting Christ in Kastoria, Greece, at Prague Live Stage. Anyway, I will attempt to make up for letting the site go dark on Saturday with this collection of new songs plus a new video that I want to recommend, all of which lurk in various corners of the black realms.

SHADES OF BLACK: ASHBRINGER, DRAUGUR, FYRNASK, LORD IMPALER, SEEMING EMPTINESS, STORTREGN, VERMINE

A very surprising, very mature, and very welcome new discovery. Heavy, intense music that gets its hooks in your head. This had to be an exciting time for the band, and it clearly was for the audience as well. When I grew up and started buying records on my own, I always listened to the full thing. All of them Black Metal based, but not really traditional, religious, Satanic Black Metal. The production is simply incredible: each and every instrument and note is right where it belongs, almost mathematically calculated, and it sounds as organic and warm as a crackling fire on a winter's night.

FYRNASK

The occult and mysterious atmosphere again! On Bandcamp, however, the lyrics appear to be in Norwegian, perhaps? It hardly ever happens that an intro manages to capture my attention — let alone an almost 5 minute ambient piece of an intro. I listen to so much black metal, and have already encountered a lot of very good, and some great, black metal in 2016. The introduction to the track is slow and mesmerizing, and I would have been happy if it had continued for a few minutes. I've heard bits and pieces here and there, but never a full album so far. Fórn will be released in digipack format on May 20 by Ván Records the vinyl edition is already sold out. Presented in alphabetical order by band name.

FYRNASK

Black Metal in general always put a lot of emphasis on atmosphere, but only too often is this just a cheap excuse for lousy musicianship and crappy production. Stortregn is a name that seems to be dropped often in discussions about modern successors to Dissection, and on this song they do indeed discharge a full-throttle barrage that combines elements of black and death metal along with hook-filled melodies — the warbling, pulsing, fleet-fingered leads in this song are especially tasty. Yes, they are in fact sung in broken, but not that broken Norwegian. The boring info out of the way, I sit back in my old man lounge chair with my headphones on, I press play and… magic happens. More info at: , ,. I used to receive Van record promos. And the song sounds really good, moving from mid-paced, bleak, and doomed to cyclonic and savage — with a dark, aching melody that winds through the music like the river Styx.

FYRNASK

The music is both storming and hypnotic, ferocious and beautiful, with a mix of barbaric and clean vocals. The music mixes chaotic lashings, serpentine melodies, drums that thunder and rock, hair-raising shrieks, and impassioned wails to create an overarching atmosphere lit with occult flame and shadowed by unearthly peril. . . .

SHADES OF BLACK: ASHBRINGER, DRAUGUR, FYRNASK, LORD IMPALER, SEEMING EMPTINESS, STORTREGN, VERMINE

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