The debut album from this band from Norway.
The band was a one-man-band with Olav Mjelva doing the bass, guitars, hardanger fiddle, harp and vocals.
Three guests added drums, percussion and guitars.
There has been some attempts during the last thirty years to blend black and viking metal with traditional Norwegian folk music. Folk music dominated by harp and harding fiddle. A couple of albums has been pretty good.
Afargang is another project in this genre.
The music on this fifty minutes long album is more melodic than esoteric. The vocals is a blend of clean vocals and black/viking metal screams.
There are some pretty strong Enslaved influences throughout this album. The music is more viking metal dominated than black metal dominated.
There are some good stuff here and there are some less good stuff here. This album is an untraditional album and pretty eclectic. It is an album more for the metalheads than the progheads.
2.5 points
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