Friday, May 2, 2025

Entry 1116 - Moonsorrow - Verisakeet

 

Style: Viking metal, black metal

Primary Emotions/Themes: A Viking metal adventure, long songs with a lot of ideas and atmospheres, a bit more aggressive than their typical albums

Thoughts: This is one of the most polarizing albums from Moonsorrow. Some of the songs sound like a broken mess, others sound like they are the band at the peak of their craft. So what's the difference? 

The main difference here is the amount of black metal in the songs. The more blasting that the songs have the less I like them. That inverse relationship is crazy to me considering what genre's I prefer most of the time. When the band focuses more on the atmospheric tracks they are at the top of their game, in fact tracks two and three are some of the best that the band has ever created.

Tracks one and four though have extended black metal sections that well overstay their welcome. I love blast beats, but the music has to call for it... Moonsorrow's music does not call for the use of blast beats. They are much better suited for more dynamic riffs. Moonsorrow's real strength is creating huge atmospheres with long and slowly evolving songs, and for most of this album they achieve just that. I'm glad they dropped the reliance on blast beats after Verisakeet as it did the band no favors.

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