My new Lord of the Rings game is all scratched up and is no longer much in the way of anything useful or exciting, so hello folks.
Seeing as how I have little else to say really...
Viten Og Mot (Sindighet) - Helheim (Cold complexity, variant progression, refreshing orchestration. Helheim is good shit)
Her Withering Petals - The Fall of Every Season (I too often forget the lamenting grace and doleful artistry of this album)
Songs of Moors & Misty Fields [Album] - Empyrium (An elegant and gracefully melancholic sample platter of symphony, folk, and doom.)
Gnosis - Agrypnie (Agrypnie continuing their refusal to disappoint me)
... Na Memória - Inverno Eterno (DSBM with melody? And Portuguese no less... I'm sold)
Ironbound - Einherjer ("Everytime this song is played, someone is struck by lightning")
Autumn Breath - Kladovest (Roman Blagih a.k.a. Thurios doing what he does best; tenderly invigorating my soul with the chill whisper of a crisp autumn breeze)
My Birds of Misfortune - Raventale (Rhetorical tautology through song)
And, seeing as how I have neglected my faithful five for a few weeks now, an homage to Canada as I see fit this week:
The Forest - Spirit of the Forest (If not for the drummer, I probably wouldn't care much for this song. That being said, this song is fucking great)
Le Cerceuil - Sui Caedere (An album as steeped in emotion as any threnody before it)
Journey to Ever-Eternal Stars - Dark Forest (Who needs an iPod when you can buy this album and a discman?)
Blossoms Will Sprout from the Carcass - Skagos (O Canada...)
Leviathan - Nebucadnezzer (In a better world where Nebucadnezzer were still making music...)
Terra Hiberna - Black Lotus (Where atmosphere and folk collide)
Nenia Solemnis - Veneficium (Driving black metal set beautifully to delicate piano and atmospheric keyboard symphonies à la Emperor c. 1994)
Take care.
