![]() The hypnotic strains of lambent melody which begin “Nothing Stands Obscured” glimmer and gleam with a softly-burning light, the song flowing and fluctuating between gorgeous ambient harmony and righteous metallic fury, building to a whirling, mesmerizing conclusion of blazing light and deep, dark shadows. Yet this strange, evocative arrangement of ambient acoustic melodies and achingly beautiful ambience is soon enough torn asunder and cast to the winds by a swiftly growing tempest of powerful, driving riffs and scalding, venomous vocals, inundated with a torrent of melancholy, melodic majesty. “The Casting” begins as a roiling storm of thundering riffs and flashes of scathing, blackened ire before slipping into calmer, more contemplative waters. The fireside ambience of “Headwinds” builds slowly to an impressive conflagration of fiery riffs and electric, elemental tremolo lines, capped off with a smoky, bluesy solo at the song’s grandiose climax, shifting seamlessly into the proggy, Pink Floyd-influenced “Sidereal Course”, where sweet harmonies and celestial guitar leads vie for space with scarred, snarling vocals and thrumming distortion, the latter eventually emerging victorious in the song’s dark and doom-laden second half. are, on average, longer and more intricate than on previous albums, with a greater sense of light and shade than ever before, their hidden depths and subtle secrets concealed beneath waves of gleaming melody and brilliant metallic clarity. ![]() The duo have taken the strongest elements of their previous four albums, filtered them, purified them, and distilled their central essence into fluid, musical form. If there’s one word that comes to mind when listening to V., the fifth album by blackened bards The Flight of Sleipnir, it’s… refined. It’s available HERE for pre-order.(Not long ago Andy Synn reviewed all the full-length albums of The Flight of Sleipnir leading up to their new release - and today he reviews that one.) ** The Flight of Sleipnir’s new album, V., is out November 24th on Napalm Records. ![]() ![]() “The Casting” is here to carry you-with all eight legs-to metallic bliss and back. If you’re almost off work, “The Casting” will calm almost all of your frustrations after being in 3-hour meetings. If you’re off work, spin up “The Casting” to whatever libation of choice. It’s time to wind down your Friday afternoon. Though it was written on an acoustic guitar the intent was always to make it a hard-hitting song in terms of feel and dynamics.” “It focuses on the idea of ancestral memories realized through the creation of a weapon. “‘The Casting’ came together near the end of the writing for this album,” says lead Sleipnir to Decibel. Since 2009’s self-released full-length, Algiz + Berkanan, the outfit’s released five albums, with V. Sure, they weren’t around when Slayer looked like girls (just kidding, relax!), but compared to, say, Sadistic Intent (almost 30 years and the Angelenos can’t get a full-length together!), the Sleipnir guys are profoundly prolific. So, it’s with keen interest The Flight of Sleipnir spearhead this relatively new combo of genres on new album, V.Īctually, the Colorado-based duo aren’t new. And doom folk is a rare breed unto itself. Actually, the fusion of folk with stoner is incongruous. The Flight of Sleipnir aren’t your typical doom-stoner-folk metal outfit.
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