Style: black metal
Primary Emotions/Themes: mining, the trials of the past
Thoughts: A geiger counter gets a response, and another, and another. Within moments the silence is filled with indications that alpha particles are everywhere. We have found some uranium.
I've known of this band for years, probably even a decade. Never decided to check them out until recently. What I found was a band that knew exactly what they were doing and as a result creating some clean and focused black metal without sounding too polished.
Uranium is the bands latest album. It focuses around mining operations in Germany during the industrial revolution. It takes the work ethic and dirtiness from back then and puts it into a modern black metal context.
All of the riffs here are well written. Not a single thing in the album turned me sour. On the same token though nothing stood out to me as truly exceptional. It's well written black metal pure and simple. They have their own niche and they lean into it hard.
Everything about this album is good, or well done... never excellent or mind blowing. I don't need every black metal release to be the next big thing - but sometimes I do want to be blown away. Maybe at least once or twice in an album. It gives me something to look forward to. Uranium doesn't do that once.
All of the riffs are good. All of the songs, and especially the vocals channel pain and the challenges of life. I just wanted a tiny bit more. Maybe I'm jaded and I've heard too much black metal - actually this is probably it. This is a great album for what it does.
These guys absolutely know what they are doing and I am going to be looking into more of their discography. Maybe they do have that album that blows me away somewhere. In the mean time Uranium is a fine slice of mostly accessible black metal, especially for those who aren't as jaded as me.
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