Vegard - Aeons of Winter Eclipse (full album, 2021)

Presenting the final full-length album in Vegard’s black metal story. This British one-man band has produced some of the most spellbinding raw atmospheric, and trancey symphonic black metal of recent years, and with Aeons of Winter Eclipse he goes out on a high. There will be some other releases following this album, but this will be his official swansong, and it is an emphatically grandiose, yet intimate album, of emotive passages of poignant, melancholic buzzsaw riffs, sighing synths and rippling drums. The naturalistic tones of previous releases leave the riverbeds and woodlands, and take to the mountainous, perilous cliffs and castles of the artwork , in an increasingly epic saga, with several peaks along its course. An album for fans of Emperor, Endlechkeit, Evilfeast, Vargrav, Veles and more, and featuring a blistering cameo solo from Mayhem’s Ghul, this joins the new and old schools into one of the years’ most immediately captivating releases.