Wodensthrone – Loss
Genre: Pagan Black Metal
Label: Bindrune Recordings
From the very beginning of this album, Wodensthrone set themselves apart from everything in black metal.
Full of big sound and wonderful yet savage melodies, Loss truly does hearken one back to the late 1980′s, early 1990′s black metal, the pure stuff that still allowed experimentation and individuality.
But even more than that, after Wodensthrone shows you the past circa fifteen to twenty years ago, they keep rewinding further and further into the past, showing you (and making you live) 700 years ago.
The England that is now immortalized in beautiful fairy tales and fantasy is shown for what it is: beautiful still, but also a place of hard living, of battles and oppression. The sound, the lyrics, everything that Wodensthrone is, is this dichotomy of beautiful and dangerous.
And it’s amazing, and also inspiring. It’s a breath of fresh air in a genre that can become stale fairly easily.
Wodensthrone’s Loss for me is an instant classic.
10 out of 10.
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