Thulcandra – Fallen Angels Dominion  In what I am assuming is a roundabout way of calling their album “hell” Thulcandra pop on to the scene from a more underground area of black metal. I was anxiously waiting to get my hands on this recording because I kept reading articles and seeing hype about it being the next phase of the black metal/melodic death metal movement. I listened to it a couple of times over and have a very conflicted opinion about the album. It’s good. It’s definitely very solid and it’s produced extremely well but I feel like there is a little something missing. Maybe it’s that it would be too little too late? I feel like if this album came out in the golden age of black metal it would be on constant rotation. As it stands it is just a really good black metal/melodic death metal album that combines many old school influences with a really popping production sound. I don’t think I’ve heard an extreme metal album that has sounded this crisp in forever. There are some really beautiful musical bits and some awesome instrumentals but I feel like some of the songs get a bit muddled and lost within themselves. “In Silence We Eternally Sleep” is actually a pretty touching instrumental toward the end of the album. The songs on the album are good but at the same time they seem like they are trying to take the best elements of great black metal bands (at times he sounds like Abbath Doom Occulta and other times kind of like Shagrath – but both of those things aren’t bad)  and smash them into one cohesive unit. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t. I will give these guys a pass though because I feel like their next album is gonna be killer and they laid down the ground work with this one especially with the musical interludes peppered into it. This is what I wish OV Hell sounded like. Check it out actually – like I said it’s not a bad album and if you like black metal this is a great album to check out because it doesn’t cross over into the incoherent style of black/death that is popping up feverishly nowadays. I’m also left wondering if they picked up their name from the C.S. Lewis book Out Of The Silent Planet (Thulcandra ctually translates to “Silent Planet”) or did they just take the name from a 1990 Darkthrone EP? Either way the album is somewhat refreshing in it’s solidness kind of. You listen to it and go “Man, this is really good…but what’s missing?”

Thulcandra – Fallen Angels Dominion

 In what I am assuming is a roundabout way of calling their album “hell” Thulcandra pop on to the scene from a more underground area of black metal. I was anxiously waiting to get my hands on this recording because I kept reading articles and seeing hype about it being the next phase of the black metal/melodic death metal movement. I listened to it a couple of times over and have a very conflicted opinion about the album. It’s good. It’s definitely very solid and it’s produced extremely well but I feel like there is a little something missing. Maybe it’s that it would be too little too late? I feel like if this album came out in the golden age of black metal it would be on constant rotation. As it stands it is just a really good black metal/melodic death metal album that combines many old school influences with a really popping production sound. I don’t think I’ve heard an extreme metal album that has sounded this crisp in forever. There are some really beautiful musical bits and some awesome instrumentals but I feel like some of the songs get a bit muddled and lost within themselves. “In Silence We Eternally Sleep” is actually a pretty touching instrumental toward the end of the album. The songs on the album are good but at the same time they seem like they are trying to take the best elements of great black metal bands (at times he sounds like Abbath Doom Occulta and other times kind of like Shagrath – but both of those things aren’t bad)  and smash them into one cohesive unit. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t. I will give these guys a pass though because I feel like their next album is gonna be killer and they laid down the ground work with this one especially with the musical interludes peppered into it. This is what I wish OV Hell sounded like. Check it out actually – like I said it’s not a bad album and if you like black metal this is a great album to check out because it doesn’t cross over into the incoherent style of black/death that is popping up feverishly nowadays. I’m also left wondering if they picked up their name from the C.S. Lewis book Out Of The Silent Planet (Thulcandra ctually translates to “Silent Planet”) or did they just take the name from a 1990 Darkthrone EP? Either way the album is somewhat refreshing in it’s solidness kind of. You listen to it and go “Man, this is really good…but what’s missing?”

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