Formed in that cursed year of 2020, SCHREIGARM are a unique entry into the oft-overlooked but always-vital Teutonic black metal scene: though based in Germany, both members are actually Ukrainian. Such a mixture surely results in a sound that mixes both the austere melodicism of the nowadays Teutonic school and the stargazing mysticism endemic of the Ukrainian form throughout the years. And if 2023's The Mysteries of Fate debut was unjustly underappreciated, then SCHREIGARM's subsequent Mara Comes and Darkness Shall Reign should doubtlessly right this injustice.
If there's one thing that unites the most enduring corners of both German and Ukrainian black metal, it's professionalism and dynamics, and SCHREIGARM possess both in spades on their second album. Revealing more than a touch of the pagan, Mara Comes and Darkness Shall Reign surges and sashays with a stouthearted sturm und drang that's all-enveloping - and awe-inspiring. Totaling eight tracks across 48 minutes, SCHREIGARM's second album is as EPIC as it comes as well as conceptual, and yet each of those songs feels like its own self-contained world, cresting and cascading with equal parts melancholy and majesty, woe and wonder. That their soundfield is so full and fleshed-out is no accident; the duo's songwriting simply demands such a bold, polychromatic palette. "Cathartic" only comes halfway close to describing Mara Comes and Darkness Shall Reign - SCHREIGARM's hearts are on fire!
Polish Black Metal. With Kataxu, Gontyna Kry, Iron Tyrant members. Reissue of the debut EP from 2004 on digipack CD. 4-panel digipack CD with 12 pages booklet.
Als Satyricon mit ›Nemesis Divina‹ 1996 ihr drittes Album veröffentlichten, war ihr Status als eine der bedeutendsten und kreativsten Bands in der norwegischen Black Metal-Szene schon über jeden Zweifel erhaben. Doch Nemesis Divina war keine gewöhnliche Veröffentlichung oder nur ein weiterer Schritt auf der Treppe zum Ruhm.
Auch wenn die musikalischen Einflüsse hauptsächlich im Black Metal liegen, lässt sich die Band um Mastermind Niklas Kvarforth nicht auf ein Genre alleine festlegen
Compact disk comes with a bonus disk featuring alternative versions of the album tracks with Cryptic Winter (Judas Iscariot etc.) on drums along with unreleased material.