{"id":6684,"date":"2018-04-16T00:02:04","date_gmt":"2018-04-16T04:02:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/?p=6684"},"modified":"2018-04-27T08:44:10","modified_gmt":"2018-04-27T12:44:10","slug":"veiled-black-celestial-orbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/veiled-black-celestial-orbs\/","title":{"rendered":"Veiled <br>Black Celestial Orbs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/veiled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6685\" src=\"http:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/veiled.jpg\" alt=\"Veiled\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/veiled.jpg 250w, https:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/veiled-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a>Before there was \u201catmospheric black metal,\u201d black metal was atmospheric.<\/p>\n<p>As the genre emerged from the Norwegian fjords in the early \u201890s, what set it apart from the underground extreme metal that begat the second wave was how evocative it all was. Bands were heavy before <i>Under a Funeral Moon<\/i>, <i>A Blaze in the Northern Sky<\/i>, and <i>In the Nightside Eclipse<\/i>, but a far more important development than sensationalized corpse paint and church burnings was that mere brutality was no longer good enough.<\/p>\n<p>Black metal conjured up emotional responses in the listener, reactions that ranged from mournful sorrow to stoic contemplation to serenity. It may seem odd that loud metal music could invoke the latter, but then Kevin Shields can inspire the same trance-inducing feelings when My Bloody Valentine is playing loud enough to peel paint off the walls.<\/p>\n<p>Ni\u00f0afj\u00f6ll definitely knows this quite well. He started off in 2013 forming Gnosis of the Witch, a duo with drummer Swartadau\u00feaz. They released two EPs and a split with Sweden\u2019s Gr\u00e1 of icy riffs and raw production before changing the name of the project to Veiled. After one demo, Ni\u00f0afj\u00f6ll recruited Dimman, a veteran drummer of many projects, most notably Gr\u00e1, Cursed 13, and Wan.<\/p>\n<p>From the moment <i>Black Celestial Orbs<\/i> (Iron Bonehead Productions) starts, it\u2019s obvious why Ni\u00f0afj\u00f6ll decided to change the name. \u201cLuminous\u201d is foreboding and droning, pulsating with a kinetic energy; the drums pound out a tribal march through darkness, spiting the name of the song, while the vocals consist of a powerful scream that resides in the background.<\/p>\n<p>The reverence for the old ways is obvious, but write off <i>Veiled<\/i> as nostalgia at your own peril. \u201cOmnipotent\u201d goes through several time-changes, and Dimman\u2019s offbeat cymbal interplay about three quarters into the song is delicate and dynamic, something you\u2019d have trouble seeing anyone pull off a quarter century ago (not many manage it today).<\/p>\n<p>Before there was \u201csymphonic black metal,\u201d black metal was symphonic. The album closes with a title track split into two parts, the first of which is eight minutes of desolate, chilling soundscapes, rising and ebbing like a ship on icy waters. There\u2019s no extra instrumentation\u2014there\u2019s not even vocals\u2014but it still comes off as orchestral with the way the duo explores different intensity levels not unlike a piece of classical music. The closing \u201cBlack Celestial Orbs II\u201d merges spoken word with mystical, spiritual clean guitar and a cleansing rainfall as the album fades to black.<\/p>\n<p>With \u201cBlack Celestial Orbs,\u201d <i>Veiled<\/i> perfectly updates and upgrades the ethos of classic black metal with an ethereal modernity. The contrasts between light and dark, cold and warm, good and evil captivate and transcend the cliches where such extremes seem to usually dwell. It\u2019s a stunningly good debut even though it begs the question, where can they possibly go from here? 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