Garden of Hesperides is a third opus in the nature themed trilogy, first two were about forests and this third opus takes us on the journey into the mountains above the green vast forests. I listened and reviewed the record for this webzine.

This band is a one man solo project of an individual called Sxuperion and it came out on his small underground label Bloody Mountain Records. The information about this band project and about Sxuperion are scarce on the web because the guy likes to keep his privacy and is loyal to the underground values, almost all that is known is that he is hailing somewhere from California area. This record contains 6 songs of atmospheric, sad and depressed black metal which takes me to the mountains while listening and I can almost feel the cold, cruel but magnificent and majestic magic of the vast and eternal mountains. The production is old school black metal, with vocals being growly and low in the mix, fast parts changing with some acoustic and atmospheric ambiental passages. There are also some samples on this record, which I like a lot when some black metal band uses those to spice up the atmosphere on the record. If I must compare the music to someone, then it would be Arckanum, don´t know really if it really can be compared but somehow that springs to mind which is not a bad thing. In all, this is a decent atmospheric black metal record.

7/10

Links: http://www.bloodymountainrecords.com/

https://bloodymountainrecords.bandcamp.com/