SURTURS LOHE - VOR WALVATERS THRON  

Christhunt is going to obsess me this month, after the Nactfalke superb "Hail Victory Teutonia" the new pagan opus is preformed by another great band and this time the concept is elaborated with some obvious German folk influences. The mid-tempo epic feeling is, inspired by the Bathory’s saga is alternate to the voice of the land, of the majestic territory, places where the ancient myth can be summoned. It’s not only a thing of pagan instruments but also of melodic lines there are played in a very evocative and heathenish way, sometimes they remind me the early Thuringia material, for some guitar lines and clean vocals but more in general, as I was saying, it’s more a matter of strong conviction for the ancient high-medieval roots of their country. The opener is the prelude to the immense evocative power of "Nebelthroned Walder" and the closing song is a masterpiece of pagan spirituality. There’s only a song where the black metal riffing come clear and the result is very good, because the song acquire a monumental atmosphere, there are only few moments whre the attention fall, but almost immediately something happens. Every person interested in pagan inspired metal is from me advised to listen to that band, it’s a source of purity in a metal word that usually prefer to promote pumped up bands made by mindless pathetic guys only thinking to head-bang and move, here there’s the solemnity of a world that sadly is disappearing

Vote 5.5/6 

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