Awaking Mechanon features four exclusive songs across 33 minutes, making for a vigorous investigation into these two as-yet-overlooked hordes. Uniquely, HÆNESY begins and closes the split with their now-characteristic combination of skyscraping melodicism and almost-mechanized violence, displaying true beauty in darkness. Not to be outdone, AUTUMN NOSTALGIE whip forth a fury of raw passion and poignant songwriting, deftly exploring dynamics at opposite ends of the sonic spectrum. Emotions unleashed in the East!
Arguably their most immediate and organic recording to date, Die Falle reaffirms BERGRIZEN as masters of autumnal black metal melancholy: magick, mysticism, splendor, and strife are all write large across the album.
A mid-90s masterpiece, this is Dimmu Borgir and symphonic/classically inspired black metal before it became polished, an archaic and atmospheric work with heavy use of piano and calming passages contrasting with aggressive and epic metal aggression. A somber and immersive album that is arguably far more timeless than the later rerecorded/rewritten Stormblåst 2005 recorded a decade later.