This new Nargaroth album is just... wow, dramatic. I've heard excerpts of it before and I was impressed, but to achieve the full effect of Kanwulf's songwriting, you must listen to it as a whole. It's deliberately simple, but the effect is like what was achieved by a younger Varg, only more minimalist and with stronger vocal delivery. Riffs hang in the air and the guitars just become some ambient textures like in dark ambient music. It's like the metal ballads that I've always dreamed of but could never pen myself.
Fuck the haters, Nargaroth is more honest and musically relevant black metal than 90% of the so-called "scene." Nargaroth is one of the few bands out there that give me any hope that the black metal community may once again produce truly monumental feats in music history. It seems like the past 8 or so years have been empty and dry, too clinical and utterly wasteful. Where's the revolution that has been brewing? Or is the scene full of self-gratifying losers just like the funk community of the late 70s?
Fuck the haters, Nargaroth is more honest and musically relevant black metal than 90% of the so-called "scene." Nargaroth is one of the few bands out there that give me any hope that the black metal community may once again produce truly monumental feats in music history. It seems like the past 8 or so years have been empty and dry, too clinical and utterly wasteful. Where's the revolution that has been brewing? Or is the scene full of self-gratifying losers just like the funk community of the late 70s?
What other (metal) have you been listening to lately?