Style: black metal, ambient
Primary Emotions/Themes: A frigid and desolate landscape in audio form
Thoughts: This album contains four tracks. Two of which are ambient/dungeon synth and the other two being black metal. Each other songs is well over 15 minutes long and it speaks to the type of music contained in Nacht.
The two ambient tracks encapsulate the cold weather of a winters night. Snow all around you, your body heat quickly dissipating... hope is fading. The keyboards used have an icy cold touch to them, and they are paired with field recordings of wind. The combination is enough to make a warm summer's night freeze over.
The black metal is more straight forward in it's approach. For a Paysage d'Hiver album the production is impeccable. All the instruments are able to be heard clearly, the drums are muted but still discernable as are the vocals. It's a whirlwind of riffs that slowly progress over the songs length. It's not so much a song as it is a journey from the starting riffs to the ending riffs. Each one transitions slowly into the next and before you know it you're in a completely different place.
There are a lot of Paysage demo's. Nacht was one of the first ones that I heard years ago. Compared to some of his other albums this one is very easy to get into, and offers a great starting point for the project. A great balance between the cold ambience and the harsh black metal.
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