Rather than provide a retrogressive step for its co-founders, Ihsahn and Samoth, Emperor’s recent 20th anniversary tour was clearly a creative dynamo sending both artists further out into the sonic stratosphere.
Four years after their last album, Inroads, The Wretched End – featuring Samoth on guitar alongside frontman and former SCUM collaborator Cosmo, as well as Dark Funeral drummer Nils Fjellström – are back with a supercharged new opus, In These Woods, From These Mountains, due to descend on high from the Indie Recordings enclave on April 22.
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In These Woods… takes the clinical yet visceral approach that marked out Samoth’s former death metal outfit, Zyklon, but reaches out further into new, equilibrium-annihilating territories. A turbulent, enthralling whorl that defies categorisation, its restless, relentless urgency skirts the avant-garde explorations that burst through the Norwegian scene in the mid-90s, alongside traces of modern-day Decapitated and Gojira, but basically braces itself for an impending apocalypse across 45 heart-in-mouth minutes, as guest appearances from Mayhem/Sunn O))) shaman Attila Csihar, Leprous vocalist/keyboardist Einar Solberg and Red Harvest’s LRZ add yet more mind-warping textures to the fray.
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