Thrène

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.