DØDHEIMSGARD

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Black Medium Current PEACEVILLE Prog-friendly metal explorers uncover yet more new territory on sixth album. Often written off by prog noise, extreme metal was a training ground for the likes of Enslaved, Ihsahn and Ulver before they threw of the shackles and raised their experimental flag high. Norway’s Dødheimsgard should be added to that list. On 2015’s A Umbra Omega, the Oslo band fully embraced the avant-garde, with songs that were 15 minutes long and incorporated proggy bass leads and squealing horns. Their seventh album, Black Medium Current, continues this approach, yet its songs are even more palatable to those who blanch at extremity. sees simple, chord-based riff repeat over clamouring prog metal percussion, while frontman Yusaf ‘Vicotnik’ Parvez sings – not screams – the hook, only for everything to…

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