Moonsorrow Jumalten Aika

2016, While the previous album was more compared to a bear, slowly crushing its way through, JUMALTEN AIKA is like a circling wolf biting the hardest when you would never expect it. The music is unchained aggression, deep mysteries of the North and thundering witchcraft combined together in a molten forge of the Gods. From its striking black/white artwork, the morbid band photos inside the booklet to the crackling guitars opening up the album's shortest song ,,Suden Tunti", there is an inevitable sense of classic black metal connecting the five new songs. Be it Norwegian bands like early Ulver or Enslaved as well as Sweden's Bathory, who are the first to blame for an unholy union between extreme metal and Nordic folklore, JUMALTEN AIKA equally melts aural darkness with a strong fascination for ancient times, successfully avoiding the stereotypical ´It's party time!` kind of folk/metal. This is pagan metal. A maelstrom of gloomy grandeur drenched in myths.