Black Metal

The debut EP »Das Schwert der Sterne« by the German Black Metal project Vampyric Tyrant contains twenty minutes of total Black Metal magic, which takes you into tales of mysteries and darkness far beyond your imagination. For fans of the traditional second wave of Black Metal.

Black Metal

In the depths of North Rhine-Westphalia, the duo Vampyric Tyrant used the year intensively to create and record their debut album »Schwarze Schwingen«. After their first EP »Das Schwert der Sterne«, they exactly continue where they left off and even take it to the next level with their latest record.

6 songs, with a playing time of nearly 40 minutes, combined into a total piece of art – Soaked in darkness and majestic atmosphere of long forgotten days.

Black Metal

Now, as summer’s heat inevitably fades away amid soon-to-be-falling leaves, Wooden Throne returns with an equally mighty successor: Eternal Wanderer of the Night Sky. Almost too perfectly titled, Eternal Wanderer of the Night Sky highlights the nostalgia hinted at by its full-length predecessor while also expanding Lehto’s gaze as high as that night sky AND down to the mossy depths of the forest floor. Much of what made Wooden Throne‘s first album such a classic is still intact – acute sense of space (often literally), impassioned performance, kaleidoscopic production – but Eternal Wanderer of the Night Sky is every inch a counterpart / counterpoint. The real development is the prominent usage of piano: never busy but always front and center, sublimely bittersweet notes lead the onward-and-skyward charge, pulling heartstrings as handily as they send chills down the spine. In this sense, and when coupled with Lehto’s more overtly lead-oriented guitar work here, Wooden Throne‘s second album is not so much a strictly “black metal” record as it is an atmospheric metal one – and, once again, paradoxically uplifting no matter what appellation you apply to it.