Fogweaver from Colorado released new opus with 10 beautiful songs. As Fogweaver calls it, this is dungeon synth from the world of Earthsea. I must admit that I didn’t listen to the previous opuses but this one blew me away. It all starts with melancholic and fantasy filled melody of Illuminated by Magelight, with waves crashing beneath the haunting and a bit soothing, yet eerie melody. Opus continues with A Patterning Spell, a bit ominous yet strong synth melody takes us into the world of sorcery, magic and disbalance between light and darkness, not knowing which side can prevail in man as an individual, depending how you fight your personal demons which you must fight every single day. The music of this opus guides us through that battle to another more beautiful dimension where we can be our trueselves and not having to comply to others and darkness between our hearts and other hearts. Other parts of this opus that I must mention as my highlights are Windbringer and also The Isolate Tower, but I must confess that when listening to this opus, every time you find something more for yourself.
Not much is known about entity called Leanan Sidhe except that it is from North East, Pennsylvania and it is fascinating how USBM takes more and more quality in the scene with great releases and superb bands/projects. This seems to be debut opus with five songs just under 50 minutes meaning they are longer but in no way boring. The cover easily describes the music, it is desolate, melodic and atmospheric black metal with lots of dark ambient influences in some song parts. This music is meant for walking along lonely road through the desolate woods cleaning your black heart from all that need not be. There is a vibe of melancholy and sadness, especially in awesome instrumental The Black Crow of Morrigan, being almost gentle night song. But, there is also black metal aggression on this album with screaming vocals, whose anguish shows all bleakness and pain. Guitar work is absolutely stunning, melodies are something that stays in your heart for a long time. Also synth and ambient parts are cleverly incorporated into the album as a whole. Great album, provides great feelings. Try the title song if you don’t believe me, you will be in awe.
Ach, Hungary. Lovely land and our neighbors not even thirty kilometers from my hometown is Croatian-Hungarian border. BlackWeald is a dark ambient/drone project from that land, with a touch of dungeon synth and epic melodies here and there in 14 songs that are featured on this new opus. What I love about this one is that it does not get boring or repetitive for one second. The slow gradation of eerie horror atmosphere creeps in with length and solitude of this music. This one is an atmosphere of careless Summer hot corn and wheat fields of Hungary turning into something sinister, death itself, but us being to closeminded and stupid to see it and acknowledge it. This reminds me why I love horror and why I love music like this one. The usage of old samples in Hungarian only adds to the overall creepiness and feeling of loneliness, dread, suicide, depression and anguish. This is not for everyone, but selected few will appreciate this one. I know I do.
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