I like kekht arakh! It's a bit of fun. This album is not as good. KA manages to achieve something I think: doing something so absurd & ridiculous but with such sincerity that it kinda works. There's something very BM about that. Or maybe I'm just not trve kvlt 😂
Këkht Aräkh is kinda trve I just don’t think they’re very good lol. The riffs are so weak and the piano sections are good but can’t carry the whole album
Vampirism and effeminate appearances are hardly new to black metal, although this idea of “romantic” BM is pretty unique to the newer stuff. It’s an interesting style tbh. If some band comes along and does it less generically than what we’ve got so far then it might work really well
I completely agree. I would also argue that romanticism always played a role in black metal's themes and aesthetic, so this direction does not feel out of place at all for me.
Kinda yeah, although the modern “romantic black metal” is basically just BM if instead of being melancholic in a cold and evil way it was sad in a Bladee way. And it’s definitely worth listening for yourself but fair warning the 3 words I was thinking of to describe it were “average black metal” lol
Without having listened to the music, this cover feels more representative of what the average black metal enthusiast is actually like in contrast to what they pretend to be. So I must commend that for this reason alone.
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I might have to listen to the album now.