Limited to 300. Comes with double sided glossy insert. Has same bonus track as cd, not featured on digital release.
Threnomancy from Sweden brings a tortured & agonized black metal style with a piercing cold atmosphere that is in the same vein as artists like Avsky, Craft and Armagedda but more raw and grim!
Another young project, very promising, debuted with an EP in 2023. From what I’ve read from the information on the Swede’s Bandcamp page, vinyl and CDs will be released by American Humanity’s Plague Productions. THRENOMANCY is a one-man project and a fellow named Sorcerer XI, who also recently debuted his second band Old Spell, is behind all of the compositions.
The 'Beholden to the Nightspirit’ EP is five tracks with a total duration of over twenty-six minutes. These five tracks are straightforward and uncompromising, but these epithets should not be combined by association with bands like Marduk. The music is raw and kept at different tempos. I won’t hide the fact that the fastest ones work best, although the medium ones, falling stylistically into a bit of punk, are equally good. There are also some references that may remind you of Carpathian Forest compositions. Those of you, however, who expect more hypnotic playing at slower speeds, will taste the closing track. 'Deep Forest Trance’, as the title suggests, is trance-like and shrouded me in a fog of lament and even a depressive feeling.
The guitar work is mostly based on fast chord play being aided by tremolo melodies. Mid tempos, on the other hand, are characterized by open strings, and in succor with that characteristic rough percussion, give the music an even more direct atmosphere. The sound, which I haven’t mentioned yet, is raw, yet clear. At fast speeds the snare drum fades out a bit, but that’s not really a novelty. The drums are kept to a minimum, which is pleasing, punctuating the direct Black Metal message by THRENOMANCY, mentioned several times already.
Finally, there are the vocals left. Distorted screams, recorded with a slight reverb, blend well with the rest of the music. Nothing revealing here, no novelty, but that’s the whole point. Black Metal recorded by the Swede sticks rigidly to the framework and does not go beyond it, paying homage to the tradition of the ’90s. I am as much in favor as possible.
Sample: youtube.com/watch?v=CormM7CjYDM&list=RDCormM7CjYDM&start_radio=1
