Krigsgrav – Fires in the Fall Review

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If the previous review on Phantom Corporation “Fallout” were the heart, this one on Krigsgrav “Fires in the Fall” would be the mind. The first was all about the passion and the fury, this is all about the mind and the soul. They are totally different kinds of Extreme Metal music. “Fires in the Fall” is instrumentally defying with all the layers of Metal music grandness. The album gets the fan by the many musical shades and approaches. It’s an elaborated music with the combination all modern elements from Extreme Metal plus the good old fury and blood from a band that appreciates the black arts of making music and make it the best. The album is intense with great instrumental passages and moments as in “Journeyman,” which, by the way, it is perhaps the track that tells it better.

Formed in 2004, Krigsgrav approach two decades as a project co-created by D. Sikora. After releasing “The Sundering” with Wise Blood in 2021, the members barely breathed before crafting the record’s successor. The resulting songwriting sessions expanded on Krigsgrav’s foundation of brooding black metal and melodic death/doom. It’s fantastic what this power trio of guitarist and vocalist J. Coleman, drummer D. Sikora and bassist C. Daniels can do along the eight tracks of the album.

It’s album opener “An Everflowing Vessel” that gives the tone to the album and aclimate the fan for what’s to come. The track showcases the shiny guitars intertwined with those dark moodings so part of a modern Black Metal song. The guitars are both melodic and thrist of blood at the same time. I have to admire this ability. Songs get so much more meaningfull. Even more if the band adds some acoustic guitars to acquire a mystical myst. The myst that following track “The Black Oak” keeps and goes beyond.

Krigsgrav incorporate the the most intricate verve of Black Metal with long tracks which vary a lot in mood and cadence. Grand finale “Alone With the Setting Sun” may be the best track to express all this where the guitars go beyond the genre standards being totally shreding. By the way, the guitars are the thing that call the eye because they follow the intricate verve Metal tradition. They are both complex and flamboyant at the same time. Well, as flamboyant as Black Metal can be.

An album to enjoy the great playing. After all, Metal music is all about great musicianship.

Krigsgrav “Fires in the Fall” will be released on June 23rd.

Track Listing:

  1. An Everflowing Vessel
  2. The Black Oak
  3. The World We Leave Behind
  4. In Seas of Perdition 04:27
  5. Shadowlands
  6. Journeyman
  7. Alone With the Setting Sun

Watch official lyric video here:

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