Sedate drumming, melancholy and often repetitive riffing, simple chord structures are all beautifully done, and all help the purpose of the album, which is to highlight the raw pain of the vocals.
I think the payoff for letting a difficult album have the time necessary to gel with you is often worth it.
…a melodic/raw black metal duo from Anchorage, and I believe their setting is extremely important to how their music seems so effortless, when talking about how coldness and organic nature of their sound.
What will be unexpected is the utter anguished beauty of Dikter om döden.
The album is an exceptionally intense listen, certainly in the running for the best and most visceral release in this style this year.
Dissonance and psychedelia and brutality..oh, my…
Allow the three tracks to guide your exploration to the primal void and find what truth is to be had there.
It makes sense that music about said reality should have some edge to it, and this does. In the end, this album is magnificent and majestic, while still directed and aggressive, a pitch perfect balance and a masterful release.
It’s as if Derhead has distilled rage and pain, beauty and misery into a concentrated form.
They have created symphonic metal which is subdued enough to accent the essential darkness of their sound, instead of overwhelming it.