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Review: Pestilential Shadows – Wretch (Northern Silence)
My review of Pestilential Shadows' Wretch, written for Heavy Music HQ:
For over twenty years, Pestilential Shadows have remained a pillar of Australian black metal — delivering records steeped in death, occultism, and melancholy. Their music is grim yet grand, raw yet atmospheric, carrying the torch of classic black metal while pushing it into ever more haunting territory. Their latest album Wretch continues this tradition with mournful melodies that draw death out of the most terrifying plagues and present it to the listener as a dramatic and overwhelming spectacle.
Wretch encapsulates everything that defines Pestilential Shadows at their core. Nothing here strays from the band’s oppressive, blackened world, which now seems to have found a fresh narrator and renewed vigor while maintaining its unmistakable essence. With Wretch, Pestilential Shadows open another chapter in their sinister poetry before the darkest demons, delivering songs that are masterfully composed and elaborately crafted; one after another, they affirm the misery and darkness of the doomed human condition with both eloquence and splendor.
Rating: 4/5
Pestilential Shadows | Devil's Hammer | 2024
Australian Black Metal
Artwork by Greallach
PESTILENTIAL SHADOWS
[Revenant, Black Metal, Australia, Seance Records, 2021]
- https://seancerecords.bandcamp.com/album/revenant
Pestilential Shadows | Revenant | 2021
Australian Black Metal
Ordo Ater Anguis
https://seancerecords.bandcamp.com/album/revenant
Album Review: Pestilential Shadows - Revenant (Seance Records)
Pestilential Shadows demand that you let the darkness of Revenant consume your soul. The Pale Rider has ridden in and his bony fingers are pointed out you.
One of Australia’s longest-running and most respected black metal bands, Pestilential Shadows have been building a towering canon of work since 2003. It’s been seven long year’s since the band’s last full-length, the widely celebrated Ephemeral, but now Pestilential Shadows arrive in a cursed world with Revenant. Here, they delve into the core themes that have always been at the heart of the…
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Pestilential Shadows | Revenant | 3rd September, 2021
Australian Black Metal
https://seancerecords.bandcamp.com/album/revenant