Location: Schellsburg, Pennsylvania
Country: USA
Genre: Symphonic black metal
Full length: The Epochs that built the Mountains
Format: Digital, limited edition CD digipak
Label: Nine Gates Records
Release date: November 9, 2014
It’s been 10 long years since this piece of black metal history has been released. Coming from one Dan to another, this album touches on many things all at once with the cosmic sounding guitars to the fatal drums in the background. It is a heavy album of sorts but not without its light qualities to it. Folk passages and choirs that turn things upside down and back up! The range of the vocals are always a surprise and the craftsmanship of it all is all really baffling to me to say the least! Being a fan versus someone who never heard a song before by Appalachian Winter, I say dive into it track for track. Each one has its own presence about it. Along with horns and fantastical sounds with falsetto vocals you can get a true taste into this one was made right in the good ole USA! Tremendous talent and a solid ear for what he wants, Daniel Klyne never fails to amaze me with this story of songs that go along better than a novel I have read or just 9 songs that gel so well together that it is a must have in my own collection. It all gets better and better on each release but I wanted to do this one a solid since it’s been 10 years and put out between Daniel Klyne and company. May you withstand the ages!
Check it out here… -Daniel Ryan
Lineup:
Randy Smith: Guitars, excluding acoustics
Mike O'Brien: Choirs and choral progressions
D.G. Klyne: Voices, compositions and arrangements
Track list:
1. Laurentia
2. Close the Ocean
3. Rise to the Heavens
4. The Last All-Land
5. Clay Becomes Stone
6. The Cycle of Sea and Mountain
7. Watergap
8. Withstand the Ages
9. Hymn to the Ancient Mountains
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