...AND OCEANS

Release Year: 2023
Artist Origin: FIN
Style: catchy intense symphonic black metal

on their sixth full-length album restless northerners continue the direction chosen on the previous comeback record and push it even further by uniting cold symphonic core of early years with a more modern, refined, and thoughtfully constructed sound, unleashing a surge of intense harmonies and tighter rhythmic discipline that allows compositions to unfold across a wide emotional spectrum while retaining inherent aggression and pathos-laden bleak atmosphere, meanwhile lyrics increasingly explore themes of existence, death, recurrence, and humanity's place in cosmos, granting ten tracks a strong conceptual cohesion as they consciously seek balance between signature identity and driving expression of progressive black metal, demonstrating creative vitality and strong awareness of the times; first French gatefold sleeve double black vinyl pressing with a double sided 60x90cm poster and Samlarens Valv plus Third Eye Catalyst bonuses on side D is limited to 800 units