Tag Vinterriket
Can we talk for a second about how pretty Stansted is? I began listening to Bolt Gun’s third full-length The Tower on a rail replacement bus journey passing through it. You see, I thought it would be the perfect soundtrack… Continue Reading →
Promising different shades of grey from black to white, the Ukrainian composer and inspiration of Severoth brings us atmospheric black metal with long guitar and synth pieces in the vein of Paysage d’Hiver and Vinterriket. “Vsevit” (Universe) is this one-… Continue Reading →
As the title suggests, this album is a sequel. The first part “Dark Dragons of the Cosmos” was well received. The seemingly timeless Vinterriket is half of Battle Dagorath. What we’re led to expect here are distant and dreamlike ominous… Continue Reading →
Drudkh’s recent wave of splits feels like they have been a liberating experience for the band. Free from the relative confines of producing a full crop’s worth of Ukrainian grief and solitude, the Drudkh frontman Roman Sayenko et al have… Continue Reading →
My last experience of Battle Dagorath was their debut album, which I gave a glowing review to back in the ‘ye olde Metal Team UK’ days. I was drawn in by their epic, Emperor-like soundscapes, and their unabashed love of… Continue Reading →
Despite what I wrongly thought the Swiss have actually had their fair share of revolutions and had a short but humdinger of one in 1847 which led to the country becoming a federal state. Anyway before I start doing more… Continue Reading →