UNFELLED - Pall of Endless Perdition
Season of Mist
OK some explaining to do with this one. So if you're a supporter of Season of Mist records or even Northern Silence Productions. Then you might know of the Australian black metal band WOODS OF DESOLATION. If not then I'll explain. WOODS OF DESOLATION is a one man BM project that started out in the mid-2000's. The one man multi-instrumentalist behind the project simply goes by the name "D".
I got into this band back in 2011 with his Torn Beyond Reason full length which came out on Northern Silence Productions. What you had with WOODS OF DESOLATION is harsh atmopheric black metal which was in all honesty generic but still cool sounding. D also has a side project called FOREST MYSTICISM which has no full lengths out but plenty of small form releases. I have their Hearken three song CD from 2018.
So in 2016, D started this side project UNFELLED and released a six song demo Beneath Distant Skies. Which brings us up to date. This time around D is with a band and the music is a side harsher. D handles bass and guitar duties on here. Along for the ride is drummer Vladislav Petrov who most BM fans know from DRUDKH. But on vocals he's got a cool dude in Mitchell Keepin formerly of two great Australian BM bands NAZXUL and PESTILENTIAL SHADOWS.
Musically this is a more ferocicious take on D's usual post BM atmopheric style. There's still plenty of laid back melodies which are punished by Petrov's drum work and D's savage tremolo pick rhythms. Mitchell vocals just keep the pain going. Out of these seven cuts I hear pretty much (again) a generic following. It's 2023 so we haven't moved far from the original ground.
Be that as it may this is just an exhilarating album. It's a modern epoch to revel any of your easy on the ears bullshit. I'd play "Wreathed Wings" or "Veil of Perdition" up your kvlt wanna-be face and watch you suffer. Normally I'd say I'm biased but with this release it's a big fuckin NO. This album is amazing!
https://www.season-of-mist.com/
LISTEN HERE:
https://unfelled.bandcamp.com/album/pall-of-endless-perdition
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