.@PlanetMosh reviews Djevelmakt by @Norsepagans – released on @IndieRecordings on January 27 Kampfar's latest offering – their sixth album in their 20-year career – is inspired by its artwork, a 1981 oil painting by Polish artist Zdzisław Beksiński, but is described by vocalist Dolk as "not a concept album per se". The singer goes on to.@PlanetMosh reviews Djevelmakt by @Norsepagans – released on @IndieRecordings on January 27 Kampfar's latest offering – their sixth album in their 20-year career – is inspired by its artwork, a 1981 oil painting by Polish artist Zdzisław Beksiński, but is described by vocalist Dolk as "not a concept album per se". The singer goes on to explain that the album nevertheless has a strong lyrical theme running through it – that theme being condemnation: "It's anti-religion and not anti-human," he comments in the accompanying press pack, going on to explain that it asks questions such as "what is reality, what is a dream, where do we end up… are we free individuals, do we decide our own path and faith?". He also describes the album as a "refocusing of the creative side of the band". Performed mostly in their native Norwegian, 'Djevelmakt' is a dark, intense work, which draws on elements of traditional black and technical death metal, doom and folk to produce a collection of eight songs that is brooding, disturbing and intimidating, challenging and possessing a density that has very few chinks of light to illuminate its dank corners. As pagan as Dolk and his bandmates' Nordic ancestors, [...]
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