#48 - Dying summers have a home here. Severnaja
I know, one of the purposes of the more theoretic parts of this blog is to create a plausible narrower understanding of Modern Metal, so that we can take it to be a genre. But that is not meant to lead to a narrowing in all aspects of understanding and perception of Modern Metal. My hope actually is to make it possible to understand certain trends within Metal more distinctly as a strylistic movement of their own, instead of understanding them as a myriad of side-developments of bigger central ones.
Bands like Sybreed always were kinda 'outfield'. (Almost) Everyone accepted that they are good at what they do. Everyone recognised their influences and how they merged them, but many struggled to actually place them. With a narrower, more clearly defined, understanding of Modern Metal, I try to give bands like Sybreed and many others a place, so to say. A specific context in the broad fields of music that they belong to and can be understood in relation to. And some bands probably really need this small bit of 'placeability' so people can digest and appreciate what they do, even if they don't entirely dig it.
The band that brought me to this thought is Severnaja, who I stumbled upon an hour ago. This is a really strange one. Pompous, very electronic, but if you concentrate on the guitars and drums that are a bit overpowered by vocals and synths in the mix, I think you could say they play something like Operatic Modern Metal. Which is awesome in its own way. I don't think I've ever heard something quite like it. It sounds a bit like Forgotten Souls and Nevermore had a bastard child with some synthwave artist. Here's their debut album "In Dying Summer's Glow":
In Dying Summer's Glow by Severnaja
