Country: Finland
Genre: Black metal
Full length: Musta Kaipuu
Format: Digital
Label: Moribund Records (USA)
Release date: July 17, 2009
This compilation album by Horna otherwise known as Black Longing is one of those rifftastic black metal albums you run into with serious fortitude behind them. It all sounds evil it all sounds horrific and it all sounds like it’s blared to the highest of volumes. Horna creates a web at first you can’t escape then captures your mind with plenty of black metal antics that would scare the crap out of any normal listener of music. They have sonically driven guitar riffs, nicely timed drums and a measure of rhythm in all of it that speaks to me. From Piina to Aldebaranin Susi they keep the tracks mushing on into the woods looking for glories in the half melted snow. Marching you on like a fever or somewhere lost in possession you are easily sunk into the music that is grim and easily blackened as a full moon eclipse. The way they make black metal is not to say it is original but full on black n roll.
With the most genuine of black metal riffs you could hear this band really knows how to hook the listener in with its cosmic witchery and dark black magic spells. Oi Kallis Kotimaa has clean sung vocals in it mixed with the black metal and the song absolutely shreds. Oi has to be my favorite song off the album so far.
Back to the darkest creeping sounds in Horna to the epic sounding Sieluhaaska, you get the vibe that these guys are full of flavor and given the right tools and circumstances can blow the average BM band out the door. Raw & ferocious they never repent or give a second thought into what they are doing other than creating something only few ears can get into. The menacing sounds and brilliant chord exchanges brings all the best out of the bands flare and aura. This effort from Horna is one of their most strikingly honest and crucial to check out if you haven’t yet! –Daniel Ryan
Track list:
1. Piina
2. Haudanvarjo
3. Aldebaranin Susi
4. Unohdetut Kasvot, Unohdettu Ääni
5. Vuohenlahko
6. Oi Kallis Kotimaa
7. Pohjanportti
8. Sieluhaaska
9. Marraskuussa
10. Menneiden Kaiku
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