
Rübezahl – Tempering of Northern Iron
Mighty warriors walk this land of heathen beauty, while the earth and elements hold their own battles of life, death, existence, and the void.
Mighty warriors walk this land of heathen beauty, while the earth and elements hold their own battles of life, death, existence, and the void.
…they are straightforward, no frills, downright filthy rock and roll.
On the contrary, these guys are nothing more or less than prog-metal alchemists,…
What a monstrous statement these three songs make!
To Crown All Befoulment strives to take the throne for unremitting nihilism and sonic annihilation of 2020 with it’s infernal, terror-inducing, and lethal combination of black metal, death metal, and bestial/war metal.
Astonishing twirling sounds and gusts of psych commotion envelope the splendid and absolutely shaking tracks on each through and through.
The album is heavy! Sometimes that’s in a musical sense, sometimes in an emotional sense, but mostly it’s heavy in both senses.
Aara honestly sounds like no other band I’ve ever heard, despite some similar elements to a few groups.
…rough, energetic, profoundly moving, yet subtle, magnificent and significant like a perfect work of art.