Interview: Kvaen
“Because the music demanded it. The album would be really bad if I decided to go full blown old-school.”
Kvaen – The Funeral Pyre
A brilliant send up to the 80s seeds of the black metal genre, thrash and speed metal bands that played with that extra edge of evil, while still maintaining a modern sound.
Birdflesh – Extreme Graveyard Tornado
The album is a ripper, chock full of riffs and blast, thundering bass, manic yells, screams, and bile, a pinch of humor, and some well placed samples.
Amon Amarth – Berserker
12 blistering, galloping, uproarious, riff-laden odes to Viking vengeance
Amon Amarth – The Pursuit of Vikings: Live At Summer Breeze
a near-perfect overview of their storied career
Vanha – Melancholia
Other bands attempting the Death Doom should look to the album as an example of how to play the style properly.
Soen – Lotus
First comes the head bobbing. Then the aggression. Followed by falling in love with it.
Skraeckoedlan – Äppelträdet
a sludgy, distorted bass tone that is as viscous as the deadly muck of a WWI Flanders battlefield.
Siniestro – Arctic Blood
I’ve determined one thing, FOUR TRACKS IS NOT ENOUGH
Hypnos – Set Fire to the Sky
These exuberant Swedes do much more than merely incorporate their retro influences into their sound; no, they take idolatry one step further by blatantly aping different bands’ styles for individual songs.