In the old days, when newspapers printed on paper were the main source of information in the so-called civilized world, the occurrence of great news generated the entrance of editors in the printing places shouting “Stop the machines!!! Stop the machines!! !”.
The same could be said for colleagues who work with year-end “best records of the year” lists. Stop everything, review your lists because the best black metal album of the year will be officially released on 12/30/2022.
“Aamongandr” is the newest offspring of Werwolf, the man who permeates the myth called the Satanic Warmaster. Since the end of the 90s and their first record in 2000, Satanic Warmaster has surprised their listeners with albums whose coldness and melody are exposed in such a way as to cut and freeze the flesh of the unwary. Always controversial and true only to himself and the darkness in his heart, the album “Aamongandr, is all an expression of that darkness.
Although it has its roots in albums like Opferflut, in that sound based on cold guitar riffs characteristic of the band (which is clear to the listener in the sound “Berserker Death” and “The Eye of Satan”), this new album advances, or at least it leaves some new ideas on display as in the sounds “Duke´s Rides” and “Darkness Triumphator” where the keyboard participates in a magnificent way, remembering work done in the second third of the 90s by Scandinavian bands. And such an approach undoubtedly sounds wonderful because it refers to a past already forgotten by many.
Still, the album presents sounds with passages of Nordic black metal associated with riffs with neoclassical folk tones as in the song “Bafomet”, which opens the album and which had already been released approximately 7 months ago in a single released on cd and offered on the Brasil by Black Metal Store, which featured as its cover a part of the painting of the entire cover of the album “Aamongandr”, which by the way is beautiful and full of references.
“Barbas x Aamon” closes the album with a composition that refers to Burzum in the Filosofem phase, closing this album in great style, with a poignant melody.
Compared to the previous record “Fimbulwinter”, “Aamongandr” is different in the style of execution of the riffs and songs as a whole and similar in the expressed spirit. Werewolf already has his name written in the history of world black metal and his new work just confirms something that wolves around the world already know, that very few bands keep the spirit of the 90s as alive as Satanic Warmaster.
Review made By BAAL SETH PENITENT
