We’re living in times of greatness for Black Metal as a whole. Of course, the genre may be deemed as dead by many, but in the deepest bowels of the underground a very familiar howl echoes allures those who are more attuned to the true meaning of its sonic emanations.
Burial Moon, a mysterious entity who channels the energies and aesthetics of the days of yore, spawned into the world a razor-sharp and menacing listening experience with its debut release, a self-titled EP that offers 22 minutes of uninterrupted and unrelenting metal in its blackest manifestation.
This is one of those rare occasions where the music here contained isn’t just something to be listened to just as something mundane and ordinary, no. Burial Moon’s debut is something to be experienced, just as much as an entrance to the other side.
The instrumentation can be described as something truly alive, like a macabre wind blowing through an old forest, or icy cold water churning and running into forsaken caverns into the depths of the earth.
As for the vocals, they can only be described as the long lost wails of ghosts who sworn to haunt the living.
Finally, I can safely assure you that Burial Moon is one of the most vivid examples that Black Metal may be dead, but its ghost still stalks the nights when no lights are shining.
