AZAGHAL

Release Year: 2020
Artist Origin: FIN
Style: roaring twisted ferocious black metal

reaching maturity and accumulating sufficient experience, the purveyors of raw, provoking Finnish black metal consciously distance themselves from the previously strict, ascetic forms on this fourth full-length recording [2004], leaning instead toward more expanded and nuanced sound, where heavier, rhythm-driven passages are felt more clearly, enriched by a denser guitar tone and focused dynamics, while lyrics place greater emphasis on mythological and natural symbolism, granting compositions a deeper narrative and ritualistic atmosphere that consistently continues the direction set by 2003's mini album, five tracks from where also appear on this recent US edition, and notably, several songs repeat, yet they were not recorded at the same time