“Atmospheric Black Metal from Ukraine”
From the frozen North, Förförare's Pojken i Skogen weaves a frostbitten mythic descent through solitude and shattered identity — a boy, a beast, and an eternal silence beneath the snow. The Color Out Of Space's The Storm That Erases brings Lovecraftian black metal obliteration from the stars, while The Utter's In The Empyrean Loft delivers a raw, bilingual concept album about the wind. Immortal EBT's Pale Sunshine fuses black metal shoegaze with Schoenberg's shadow, and Oskoreien's All Too Human meditates on free will and tragedy through "unrelenting waves" of achingly beautiful melody.