Blog: The Ripple Effect

In past reviews of Norwegian black metal albums, I've painted stark pictures of bitter winter landscapes as I've interpreted the music set before me. Frigid forested mountains caked with snow and ice, windswept hills and lands barren of most human life. The black metal mavens of Norway always seem to capture these environments better than most, creating this amazing imagery of desolation and want, which makes me think that their approach to the music is more than to follow the deer trails of those who came before them and more a lifestyle of shunning human existence. Steeped in the essence [...]