Beats and yelling: Nachtheem

Waan van de leegteOut 6th June on Terratur Possessions Similar to the recent Selenite Scrolls in its ability to insert itself into a very crowded style and still find room for a USP. This debut album slots in somewhere between early Enslaved and Ulver with a less explicitly folkist orientation. The albums washes over the listener in understated yet richly realised currents. Holistic in the sense that no individual moment, riff, or measure is particularly remarkable in isolation, but each contributes in bringing a vast, panoramic experience to bear. The album feels easily digestible in terms of length and content for anyone well versed in Nordic black metal, but a renewed picture emerges regardless. In some respects many fans are still driven to plunge the depths of the genre in the hopes of recreating that magical moment from our youth when we initially connected with the music. Here such a possibility presents itself, as if all that were required to bring it to life were a fresh pair…