RAGNAROK

Release Year: 2021
Artist Origin: NOR
Style: fast intense relentless black metal

the third monument from Sarpsborg’s darkest quartet [2000] surprised with a different musical structure, deliberately expanding the creative scope by lengthening each track, thus giving compositions more space and ritualistic character, deepening central ideas through a greater number of dramatic turns while also intensifying the impact of bleak atmosphere, achieved through a stranger, reverb-soaked guitar tone in which harmonies are partially concealed beneath coarse sonic veil, meanwhile Jontho's drum work remains vivid and unpredictable, not shying away from unusual rhythmic solutions, and Thyme's archetypal vocals push toward new extremes, where only the closing piano piece Postludium calms such a brazen, warlike infernal assault; long time out of print, recent Norwegian edition comes with authentic design