SAOR

Release Year: 2020
Artist Origin: SCO
Style: celtic atmospheric folk black metal

the first recording under the Saor banner [2014] takes further the theme started by Andy Marshall with Àrsaidh - ultimately epic sounding music with a thick atmosphere, melodic background of which is able to build trails up to the deepest stratum of traditional Celtic folklore, yet component of heavy music, at times sharpened up to the savage black metal chaos, makes the hell break loose, proving its creator's aim to transform the forgotten sound-inspired feelings into nowadays context, offering truly unique journey through ancestral memory, grandeur of untamed nature, and melancholic longing for historical heritage, while retaining the vitality of contemporary sound, thus occurring somewhere among Falkenbach, Cruachan, later Nokturnal Mortum, and Primordial, hiding huge extra potential within its sleeve; recent French edition comes with a remastered sound and two bonus instrumentals