NAGLFAR

Release Year: 2023
Artist Origin: SWE
Style: hellish harmonious blackened death metal

if debut longplay was cold, melancholic and blackened, its follow-up [1998] turned out noticeably hotter, angrier and far more intense, with melody no longer serving as the defining characteristic but rather as an accent of mood - musicians admitted they were seeking a creatively different angle on a genre increasingly becoming a fashionable trend, so this time guitars sound considerably heavier, riffs more aggressive, tremolo patterns even sharper, while savage rhythm section relentlessly backs listener against the wall, as black metal fury collides with death metal weight and bleak harmonies, meanwhile Jens' apocalyptic prophecies become even angrier, harsher and more ferocious, while sparse atmospheric interludes merely highlight the subtleties woven into these compositions; recent German three panel digipak edition comes with a remastered sound, two additional cuts from When Autumn Storms Come 7"EP [1998], and extensive liner notes in sixteen page booklet