Monday, January 11, 2016

Saor's "The Awakening" is beautiful black metal

Love the choral vocals and the different directions the guitars go. When black metal bands use keyboards as well as Saor does on this track, it's lifted—from what would otherwise be a noisy distortionfest (did I just come up with a new festival name?)—to an ethereal, even divine presence.







Saor is a Scottish one-man act by Andy Marshall. This 10-minute opus named The Awakening, above, is from his 2014 album "Aura." He enlisted guest musicians, apparently. Here's a review the album from Metal Archives.

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