Recommended Listening

Insane, epic black metal from members of Orthrelm and Behold...the Arctopus. All the typical BM signifiers (ragged-throat screeching, high-velocity tremolo picking, blastbeats) are there, but instead of the typical black metal soup they've been superheated and spun out into a breathtaking Gothic blood cathedral. Flowery metaphors aside, the riffs are astounding, the recording is superb (a sad rarity in the BM scene) and the songs are incredibly good. "Energy Chasms" drops my jaw every time I hear it.