Frostmoon Eclipse
Supreme Triumph in Black
[Black Tears]


Ouch, rather generic band name there. Normally I wouldn't pick this up, but there's a Handful of Hate member here, so I went ahead anyway. This is over the top norse inspired stuff, comparable to mCD era Arcturus. The vocalist sounds uncannily like Garm as well!

This CD will be appealing to many of course. There's many a good riff, it's all very atmospheric, and the keyboards are naturally way up front. The band is technical indeed, but I just can't appreciate this. It's fine background music, but it's hardly hell-metal. Anyway, I can at least give my thumbs up for this release in respect to a certain group of people: those who enjoy the early Arcturus (albeit much faster) style of keyboard drenched, epic riffing black metal.

As a side note the packaging is quite good. For once I don't mind owning a digipak, since the huge battle scene depicted on the cover is rather good…


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