I was surprised by this band's 2019 album, The Comforting Grip of Misery, as I didn't expect it to be good, but it really was. This is a one-man band playing expansive, melodic, depressive Black Metal with a definite stylistic debt to pioneering acts like Xasthur and especially Forgotten Tomb, though I absolutely hear influence from the long-vanished Woods of Ypres in the moody, melodic flourishes and sometimes adventurous songwriting.
The sound on this is, again, really good for a studio project, with a clear but nicely biting guitar sound and excellent riffs to work with. Everything here is mixed together into a wave of sound, yet the melodic ideas are developed and clarified enough to stand out. Each one of these songs has an identity and a lot of room to develop, as most of the tracks are fairly long, but they never wear out their welcome. If you are a fan of this kind of mood-drenched Black Metal, then this is a definite band to watch.
