Elffor ‎"Into The Dark Forest" CD (Bonustracks)

The moment I listened to this album I was amazed and felt like I was entering a battle in the Dark Ages. I knew I was in for a journey.
Into the Dark Forest features nature-inspired music and lyrics. The songs consist of epic, battle-like and medieval-sounding ambiance with the vocals typical in depressive-suicidal black metal with the first track being an exception, being entirely epic ambiance. Each track is like a journey through winter landscapes. You feel hints (in a figurative sense) of the Dark Ages, Viking battles, and harsh winters. Highlight tracks for this album have got to be Frostfog and Entrance to the Fog. Frostfog starts off with very dark, ambient music, then collapses in with screaming black metal vocals. Throughout the song, 'Frostfog' is screamed. Since I love black metal, this track is perfect to me.
Entrance to the Fog kicks off with "Entrance to the Fog" screamed, proceeding with action-filled, epic battle and medieval-like ambiance. It quiets down and becomes more dark and epic with piano/keyboard following. In the middle, clean vocals appear with screams ending and epic ambiance ending the track. This is sure to be an all-time favorite black ambient song of mine.
Overall, this album deserves a 100%. The simple fact of epic and battle-like ambiance with screaming black metal vocals is genius to me. A lot of black ambient (ambient music with elements of black metal) I've heard is very dark and doesn't have epic ambiance like Elffor has. That makes this album so unique, and the ambiance is so action-filled and epic.
I highly recommend this album for fans of black metal (especially atmospheric black metal), classical, and Medieval music. It is a masterpiece within the realm of black metal.

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