A SAD SADNESS SONG

Srodek
“Forfall”
CD, 2011
Like a desperate voice of the lone northern lands, bearing the feeling of the early Burzum’s masterpieces and the visionary transcendence of Svarti Loghin’s debut album, the cold season strikes back like caress of a cold knife.
Featuring in fact a Svarti Loghin members Srodek is a lonely spirit, detached from the compromises of modernity, flowing like an echoing dissimulation, a melancholic and depressive chant to draw the human shell to the final chapter. For fans of Lifelover & Shining.

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Svarti Loghin
“Drifting Through The Void”
Digipack CD, 2010

Goodbye, bitter cold and bitterer depression – hello, dazzling sunrise and spiraling bliss. Goodbye, black metal – hello, non-conformity. Although Svarti Loghin were never ones to follow, with newest album Drifting Through the Void, the enigmatic Swedes lead black metal to a glorious new dawn, setting fire to well-worn tropes, the now-meaningless clichés, and forge a path for the unknown, literally Drifting Through the Void. A wry view on negativity remains, but Svarti Loghin offer a more dynamic experience that beautifully integrates shoegaze and indie-rock and even alt-country. Bittersweetness was never so narcotic: lay back, bliss out, and experience Drifting Through the Void.

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An Autumn For Crippled Children
“Lost”
CD, 2010

Glorious cascades of melancholy wash down upon you, cathedrals built from bittersweet tears pierce the rain-choked sky: indeed, this is an autumn for cripple children. Such is the sound of An Autumn for Cripple Children and their highly anticipated debut album, Lost. Literally wearing their hearts on their sleeves, AAFCC weave emotionally gripping, sonically gorgeous tapestries that canvass black metal, doom, and post-rock. However epic Lost may be in part and whole, the band moves naturally, effortlessly, between these sound palettes, never forcing the point nor evincing cloying schizophrenia. This is pure catharsis, and you will get Lost within.

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Joyless
“Wild Signs Of The Endtimes”
CD, 2009
There are bands so much capable of writing history that their intuitions become a trend for the followers. These bands can be rightfully recognized as fathers of their musical genre.
Wild Signs of the Endtimes collects material from ’96 – ’99 and will unveil amazing moments of madness for those into the pessimistic rock-shogaze bands going on today, played as usual with the incredible spontaneity of the black metal legends Rune Vedaa & Olav Berland (Forgotten Woods). Joyless is a personal way to mix melancholy, folk, rock, shoegaze, avantgardish and depressive black metal echoes in a cocktail of raw emotions. 

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Svarti Loghin
“Empty World”
Digipack CD, 2008

Svarti Loghin are destined to become the Swedish point of reference for words like skillfull, emotive and depressive Black Metal. The gloomy atmosphere of their debut leads to progressive territories and to strong disharmonic and melodic vibrations. Empty Wold is the anti-modern anthem which sophistication is the feeling of the music itself instead of any sort of instrumental joy. Empty World is like a twilight gradually covering Midgard, the demonstration that Scandinavia has still something unique to offer to the Black Metal and obscure music scene more in general. The awesome songwriting can sometimes recalls the darker feeling of Forgotten Woods’ “The Curse of Mankind” or younger bands like early Alcest but it’s something beyond. Attractive like nature but in the meantime deadly “Empty World” is the hard cider that will lead to watch the last breath of this vanishing world.

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