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Review from Transcending Obscurity Webzine

Posted by Nick Skog on Saturday, August 16, 2014, In : Album Reviews 
From: Transcending Obscurity Webzine
Published: August 14, 2014

This German Black Metal band is at once reminiscent of early Agalloch and that can’t be a bad thing. The band however is trying to find its own voice using the template, so to speak. It has a lot to express and goes about employing several acoustics parts and interludes if you will, to reach a point where it’s Black Metal primarily. That’s probably the only problem I have with this release is that it takes too lo...

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Review from Metal Revolution Webzine

Posted by Nick Skog on Thursday, May 1, 2014, In : Album Reviews 
From: Metal Revolution Webzine
Published: April 29, 2014
*Google translation of Czech review

Frigoris is a German metal band releasing their sophomore album. They were initially formed (2007) as a Pagan & Black Metal band, but steadily developed their sound. Now, it is mostly filled with a beautiful soundscapes and epic emotions.

Their sound nowadays is hard to categorize, but I would call it a melodic and atmospheric black metal. What we have here are eight majestic tracks that are ...

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Review from Forgotten Path Magazine; Issue 6

Posted by Nick Skog on Thursday, March 20, 2014, In : Album Reviews 
From: Forgotten Path Magazine; Issue 6
Published: November 2014

The taste of “Hypnotic Dirge Records” in Black Metal isn’t always easy to understand and be acceptable to me; however, they surely didn’t miss with this second album of German project Frigoris. This time it’s Black Metal based on pagan values and the majesty of nature. Actually it’s a direction taken by many bands of today (including many German ones), like Imperium Dekadenz. Meanwhile, in the case of Fr...

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Review from Volumes of Sin Webzine

Posted by Nick Skog on Saturday, March 8, 2014, In : Album Reviews 
From: Volumes of Sin Webzine
Published: March 8, 2014

German band Frigoris received their start in 2007 and soon thereafter released their demo, Morgenröte, in 2008. In 2009 Dominik Winter did away with the three other members of his band due to internal differences. He formulated a new group, which consisted of two additional bodies, for the debut full-length album, Nach dem Kreig, which was released in 2010. After an additional line-up change which places three newcomers into th...

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Review from Pure Nothing Worship Magazine; Issue 2

Posted by Nick Skog on Thursday, December 19, 2013, In : Album Reviews 
From: Pure Nothing Worship Magazine; Issue 2
Published: February 2014

As a relatively young and unknown German band, Frigoris strikes with their second full-length album called "Wind", and shift the attention to themselves. Being boldly compared to old Agalloch, old Woods of Ypres and Imperium Dekadenz, "Wind" carefully threads a distinctive path of emotional, atmospheric melodic black metal, with a few pagan black metal touches.  The album delivers a strong emotional and natura...

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Review from Metal Center

Posted by Nick Skog on Wednesday, December 18, 2013, In : Album Reviews 
From: Metal Center Webzine
Published: Unknown

At first I was suprised with German language and very melancholic guitars, then it has began. Simple, but not burish perfect guitar riffs, strong lyrics took me far far away into the dark and brutal tales of the "Wind”. And then I pressed play button... again...and again. I couldn't get enough of this music and grim, but very poetical stories. 

Frigoris is showing clearly that German language doesn't belongs to Rammstein and that good ...

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Review from Metallifer Blogspot

Posted by Nick Skog on Thursday, December 5, 2013, In : Album Reviews 
From: Metallifer Blogspot
Published: December 4, 2013
*Google translation of French review

Frigoris is a German group active since 2007 located in Essen, which after the first album Nach dem Krieg released in 2010, now offers its new album Wind . Wind was released via labels Misantropic Art Productions and Hypnotic Dirge Records . Frigoris evolves in a register "Atmospheric Pagan Metal, Black Metal". First, what is obvious is the production: solid, flawless, powerful and clear. This...

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Review from Metal.de

Posted by Nick Skog on Wednesday, October 30, 2013, In : Album Reviews 
From: Metal.de
Published: October 27, 2013
*Google translation of German review

Pagan Black Metal from Germany - this scene has certainly produced some excellent bands and albums, but also quite often in very large garbage is produced. Frigoris of food hit more on the latter side - though is their second album "Wind" was no big garbage without any bright spots, but it's also really, really not a good album. since switch to "wind" that is reasonably audible, but the majority also int...

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Review from Nocturnal Cult Webzine

Posted by Nick Skog on Wednesday, October 9, 2013, In : Album Reviews 
From: Nocturnal Cult Webzine
Published: October 8, 2013

Majestic Teutonic black metallers Frigoris return for their sophomore album and paint a soundscape of epic and forlorn emotions for nearly 50 minutes on Wind.  After cold, fragile acoustic guitars pull you into a world of natural beauty on Windgefluster, you are then transported to a field of darkness as Zwischenwelten unfolds.  Slowly drifting riffs flow in blackened, yet somehow folky rhythms while stony vocals drag across t...

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Review from The Pit of the Damned Webzine

Posted by Nick Skog on Friday, October 4, 2013, In : Album Reviews 
From: The Pit of the Damned Webzine
Published: October 2, 2013
*Google translation of Italian review

Back to the Hypnotic Dirge Records with the third album released this summer, that of the Teutonic Frigoris. The band Dominik Winter (that there is a correlation between the name of the mastermind and how much of icy might evoke the name of the band?) Propina a concentration of black mid tempo very melodic guitars which in some ways may remember the song of the Dissection of the swan...

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Review from Metal Wave Webzine

Posted by Nick Skog on Friday, October 4, 2013, In : Album Reviews 
From: Metal Wave
Published: October 2, 2013
*Google translation of Italian review

Moods massive, enchanting melodies and majesty, here is what is the new second album by German Frigoris. "Wind" was released for the Misanthropic Art Productions and consists of 7 songs plus intro for about 48 minutes and a half of a melodic black metal, not prone to attack front and mid tempos and more inclined to introspection. Nevertheless, the songs are not flat, they are not a bunch of homogeneity...

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Review from Lunar Hypnosis Webzine

Posted by Nick Skog on Friday, September 20, 2013, In : Album Reviews 
From: Lunar Hypnosis Webzine
Published: September 19, 2013

The German foursome of Frigoris came into motion back in '07, under the leadership of guitarist/vocalist Dominik Winter, although internal affairs in '09 forced the rest of the band out and Dominik began anew. At that point two demos had already been released, which was followed by the debut 'Nach dem Krieg' in '10 and most recently their second album 'Wind' through Misanthropic Art/Hypnotic Dirge Records. 

Being completely ...

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Review from Ave Noctum Webzine

Posted by Nick Skog on Monday, September 16, 2013, In : Album Reviews 
From: Ave Noctum Webzine
Published: September 12, 2013

German band Frigoris release their sophomore album on Hypnotic Dirge and the list of ‘for fans of’ appealed so here I am, eager. It opens as you might expect with a little soundscape, wind softly calling across the landscape, rustling trees and grass as the acoustic guitar plucks a pastoral tune before being swallowed by the rush of the blasting riff and the nicely howled vocals. It’s a good sound, and a nice if plainly p...

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Review from The Infernal Symphonies

Posted by Nick Skog on Friday, August 30, 2013, In : Album Reviews 
From: The Infernal Symphonies
Published: August 28, 2013

One of the great things about metal is discovering new bands, not just those placed in front of you by the bigger labels but those lesser known artists who deserve to be heard. Likewise, it is also important to support the smaller, independent labels who toil away in relative obscurity yet show a clear passion for the music.

My point? Thanks to Hypnotic Dirge, a label who always impresses with their shrewd choices as to who to...

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Review from Undergrounded Webzine

Posted by Nick Skog on Monday, August 19, 2013, In : Album Reviews 
From: Undergrounded Webzine
Published: August 16, 2013
*Google translation of German review

Album Reviews make twice as much fun when you know what to expect. So I was on Ragnarock 2013 Frigoris already experience and goutieren some songs in the current plate and second plate "wind" live. Frigoris are at least visually not the typical Black Metal.

Without corpsepaint cliche but with the more "melodic" the guys in the division cut-Depressive Black Metal Melodic and remind me of the pl...

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Review from Global Domination Webzine

Posted by Nick Skog on Monday, August 19, 2013, In : Album Reviews 
From: Global Domination Webzine
Published: August 15, 2013

Frigoris is a pagan/black metal from Germany, with German lyrics, sometimes reminding me of Dornenreich. The music and production is executed in a very good manner and there are not many things to complain about there. However the songwriting is the largest drawback with this album.

For me it is almost impossible to stay focused during the entire album. I’ve tried and tried, I’ve listened so many times now, just to reall...

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Review from Metal Temple Webzine

Posted by Nick Skog on Friday, August 9, 2013, In : Album Reviews 
From: Metal Temple Webzine
Published: August 8, 2013

Almost every time I stop by a German Metal band I never get disappointed and FRIGORIS is no exception, add to it that the integrality of the lyrics in this Pagan gloomy album are in German, a thing that accentuates the common fact that this language is most fit for Rock and Metal. Indeed, from the first glimpse into the artwork (where a wide field of cereals is yielding) can tell it all, alongside the album intro where wind sound...

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Review from Music of Shadows Webzine

Posted by Nick Skog on Sunday, August 4, 2013, In : Album Reviews 
From: Music of Shadows Webzine
Published: August 3, 2013

The album starts with a very nice acoustic intro that slowly builds a very nice
atmosphere. After hearing it, I was really looking forward to what the rest of the
album will sound like. Sadly the second song "Zwischenwelten" didn't really give me
anything, there is a nice acoustic part in the song but overall it's nothing really
special.

But now, looking back when I first heard this album the song title "Zwischenwelten" can
really ...

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Review from Lords of Metal; Edition 138

Posted by Nick Skog on Friday, August 2, 2013, In : Album Reviews 
From: Lords of Metal; Edition 138
Published: August 1, 2013

Dominik Winter rules the roast in Frigoris. In 2007 he founded this atmospheric black metal project and since then many band members have come and go. Wind happens to be the second full length album and the successor of Nach Dem Krieg (2010). Recorded at famous Gernhart Studios with producer Martin Buchwalter, the four-piece active on this album has created a melancholic record with a grand atmosphere. However it shows the...

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Review from Metal Soundscapes Webzine

Posted by Nick Skog on Wednesday, July 31, 2013, In : Album Reviews 
From: Metal Soundscapes Webzine
Published: July 31, 2013

Frigoris is a German pagan black metal band formed back in 2007 by Dominik Winter. After the demo “Morgenröte” in 2008 and several line-up changes, the band self-released its debut full-length album “Nach dem Krieg…” in 2010. The line-up changes never stopped for the band, but they didn’t give up. In the end of 2012 they signed a one-record deal with the Canadian label Hypnotic Dirge Records and the South Korean ...

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Review from Alarm 666 Webzine

Posted by Nick Skog on Tuesday, July 23, 2013, In : Album Reviews 
From: Alarm 666 Webzine
Published: July 23, 2013
*Google translation of Danish review

"Wind" is German Frigoris other fuldlængdes. I do not know their first disc, but this one is not quite so crazy. The genre has, by its own admission a mix between black metal and pagan metal, and this really is very good.

We start out with an atmospheric intro where rain, little birds singing, acoustic guitar, shown well have been voted one more time in some places, and whisper in German (all texts...

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Review from Black Tome Magazine; Issue 1

Posted by Nick Skog on Friday, July 19, 2013, In : Album Reviews 
From: Black Tome Magazine; Issue #1
Published: August 2013

Frigoris have been around for six years, and have managed to be kept a secret from most..  I actually originally found them through the artist who designed the album art for my band (Maugrim) as he was also doing art for them.  The image he had done for "Wind" pulled me in immediately, so much so, I tried signing them to my label...but I couldn't offer them what they needed, and clearly they deserve to be catered more than I can do.  A ...

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Review from Sic Maggot Webzine

Posted by Nick Skog on Friday, July 19, 2013, In : Album Reviews 
From: Sic Maggot Webzine
Published: July 19, 2013
*Google translation of Czech review

Germany is one of the bastions of Europe's most prolific metal bands and territory, from which they originate, can be counted on at least a thousand. And among those thousands of bands someday year of our Lord 2007 hatched another, whose members he gave the coat of arms name Frigoris and began to commit pagan black metal. Does this sound suspiciously familiar and already pre expect from the album "...

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Review from Les Eternels Webzine

Posted by Nick Skog on Thursday, July 18, 2013, In : Album Reviews 
From: Les Eternels
Published: July 18, 2013
*Google translation of French review

Level languages ​​is often contrasts the " pretty supposedly sunny and flowery Italian regions, "fluid and singing, German guttural and laborious, the first referring to the second recalling it seems, the dark hours Europe of the twentieth century. Well no, the pictures enough! If our grandparents could thrill to listen to the Teutonic language, damn water flowed under the bridge since then. And Ita...

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Review from Rock Metal Essence

Posted by Nick Skog on Thursday, July 18, 2013, In : Album Reviews 
From: Rock Metal Essence
Published: July 18, 2013
*Google translation of Italian review

From the lands of Germany there comes the music of Frigoris , training pagan / black metal on her second album with Wind , album released in June for the Hypnotic Dirge Records .

A great product of extreme metal and air pollution, which plunges us with taste, making use of ideas very close to folk metal, in a musical landscape of pure aggression but also decadent melancholy. A journey through vast...

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Review from Post-Christ Webzine

Posted by Nick Skog on Thursday, July 18, 2013, In : Album Reviews 
From: Post-Christ Webzine
Published: July 16, 2013
*Google translation of French review

German group (not change) Black Metal inspired by "pagan" Frigoris released his first album in 2010 with a rather average. In fact, that made ​​way for Nach dem Krieg  ! On the 2010 album, the style is quite hesitant despite some good parts (particularly the acoustic guitar), with a little chopped musical construction and consistency is lacking. The melodic part is present, but not necessaril...

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Review from Music Swept Away the Colours

Posted by Nick Skog on Thursday, July 18, 2013, In : Album Reviews 
From: Music Swept Away the Colours
Published: July 13, 2013
*Google translation of Spanish review

I have a soft spot for bands that sing in German, especially black metal and neofolk. So this disc mix of both styles, (but not exactly neofolk acoustic guitars have a role) painted quite palatable. 

"Wind" is the second album by the Germans Frigoris. In 2009, two demos, Winter, vocalist and guitar, made the other members, and apparently has given good results, while this album is the re...

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Review from Alternativ Musik Webzine

Posted by Nick Skog on Thursday, July 18, 2013, In : Album Reviews 
From: Alternativ Musik
Published: July 12, 2013
*Google translation of German review

It is these moments when you simply must force off an album. Not because you can not bear it. The contrary, it puts it all without expectations in the CD player and wants to hear it by the way, you actually have to do something else. And then directs the music but always of what we wanted to do down because they seduced over and again to listen more closely and are yielding to the back, then you can...

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Review from Metal.tm

Posted by Nick Skog on Thursday, July 18, 2013, In : Album Reviews 
From: Metal.tm
Published: July 10, 2013
*Google translation of German review

Frigoris (German for "cold") has undergone a major transformation in the very short band history. In 2007 the band by Dominik winter Pagan / Black Metal band was formed, today they establish themselves with their second album "Wind" as Atmospheric Black Metal band. "establish" The use of the verb like due to the lack of awareness of the band surprised quite but already the opener shows where we are going. A...

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Review from Ad Vesperum Magazine

Posted by Nick Skog on Thursday, July 18, 2013, In : Album Reviews 
From: Ad Vesperum Magazine
Published: July 7, 2013
*Google translation of German review

Frigoris from the home country to present with "Wind" their second full disc.

Until a few hours my Essen Frigoris chapel was still completely unknown. What we get offered with "wind", the second work of the chapel? A mixture of Black Metal and Pagan, sometimes quickly, sometimes played a little milder. All backed by ballad (guitars) sounds. Melody hits hard and crisp percussion and bass Gittaren p...

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Review from Headbang Music

Posted by Nick Skog on Saturday, July 6, 2013, In : Album Reviews 
From: Headbang Music
Published: July 6, 2013
Original Link
*Google translation of Italian review

The second full-length of Frigoris really gave me a lot. A summary of the methodology German / Austrian to be creepy, the exemplification of all that it means melodic / melancholic within the extreme. It 's very hard for me to tell you about this work just for her to be enslaved in a complete manner to that thing called "feeling". A roller melodic and endured that it sweeps away thanks to a black meta...
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Review from Bleeding 4 Metal Webzine

Posted by Nick Skog on Saturday, July 6, 2013, In : Album Reviews 
From: Bleeding 4 Metal Webzine
Published: July 6, 2013
Original Link
*Google translation of German review

The second album of melodic black metal band Frigoris goes by the name "wind" and with the cover you have already proven right taste. It looks sublime, Environmentalist and powerful. Musically, there are epic black metal, acoustic guitars and folk influences from the area. Combined with the German Geshoute Frigoris here have really made ​​a great album, one that will not soon likely to be...

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Review from Legacy Magazine; Issue #85

Posted by Nick Skog on Wednesday, July 3, 2013, In : Album Reviews 
From: Legacy Magazine; Issue #85
Published: June 2013
Magazine Website
*Google translation of German review

It's strange when a German metal band with German lyrics on the cooperation of two labels, one from Korea, one from Canada, is dependent. Especially when this is quite capable in the A category of the German - I call it hate - Pagan Black Metal advance. For what Frigoris deliver food from the "wind" could well be on a par with the likes of Empire decadence or Hel. The portentous title gives...
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Review from Hammerheart Magazine; Issue #6

Posted by Nick Skog on Wednesday, July 3, 2013, In : Album Reviews 
From: Hammerheart Magazine; Issue #6
Published: June 2013
*Google translation of German review

I needed something to smile as I entered the band name into the form of a, ahem, very well-known search engine. In the ranking ranked in the top row, the "Frigoris AG Refrigeration" one. How to match the melodic black metal I thought. However, I can "wind" (release date 07.06.2013) is anything but cold. Frigoris focus on guitar-driven, melodic melancholy music ála a Insomnium mixture with which they h...

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Review from Dark Festivals

Posted by Nick Skog on Wednesday, July 3, 2013, In : Album Reviews 
From: Dark Festivals
Published: June 27, 2013
Original Link
*Google translation of German review

This month, the German black metal band Frigoris has released their second album "Wind". While Frigoris were trimmed in its initial phase Pagan / Black Metal, the band is now with "wind" at atmospheric aligned Melodic Black Metal landed.

The German language CD is curiously appeared as a co-production with both a Canadian and a Korean record label.

Frigoris show to "wind" not as old-school band. Sheer ha...

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Review from The Lair of Filth Webzine

Posted by Nick Skog on Monday, July 1, 2013, In : Album Reviews 
From: The Lair of Filth Webzine
Published: July 1, 2013
Original Link

The first of three releases this summer by Hypnotic Dirge Records (I'll be covering the other two soon) is Frigoris' album, Wind. This is an epic and atmospheric work of art from these bleak Germans. Haunting melodies blend with harsh rhythms to create a quite wonderful album. Black  metal continues to evolve, which might piss of some, and Frigoris do a great job of retaining an old school feel with modern elements. Quite hone...
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Review from Cosmos Gaming

Posted by Nick Skog on Friday, June 14, 2013, In : Album Reviews 
From: Cosmos Gaming
Published: June 13, 2013
Original Link

Germany’s Frigoris started off as your fairly standard pagan/black metal band, but over time has transitioned into a melodic black metal group that places emphasis on soaring melodic passages and an entrancing atmosphere. It’s not that different from the transition some of the other acts in the genre have gone through as they have reached for more expansive ideas, but Frigoris’ sophomore effort Wind goes for a slightly different ap...

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Review from Infernal Masquerade Webzine

Posted by Nick Skog on Sunday, June 9, 2013, In : Album Reviews 
From: Infernal Masquerade Webzine
Published: June 6, 2013
Original Link

Arriving this June on Hypnotic Dirge Records and Misanthropic Art Productions we have Frigoris and their sophomore release “Wind”. Perfectly mixing acoustic guitars with melancholic Black Metal, the band creates a very powerful and emotional atmosphere around their songs. Hailing from Germany, this band is an ideal match for fans of bands like Agalloch, Fen, and Woods of Ypres, and older Empyrium.

Opening with the mysteri...

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Review from Lachryma Christi Webzine

Posted by Nick Skog on Tuesday, June 4, 2013, In : Album Reviews 
From: Lachryma Christi Webzine
Published: June 3, 2013
Original Link

For those who don't know Frigoris, they are a German Pagan/Black Metal and they will be releasing their new album on the 7th of June through Hypnotic Dirge Records. This album is really furious, really heavy too maybe, even though still very melodic and with a lot of acoustic instruments especially in the intros of the songs.
After the introduction every song keeps their melody but all songs are really fast, really very old scho...

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Review from Desolation Infinite Blogspot

Posted by Nick Skog on Tuesday, May 28, 2013, In : Album Reviews 
From: Desolation Infinite Blogspot
Published: May 25, 2013
Original Link

Frigoris began as a pagan black metal band but then later added in an array of elements as head, Dominik Winter, thought the band could do more, and so it has become something much more. Wind was proposed to be by the band and I am sure glad they did.  Before then I had no idea the band existed but now I am becoming an avid fan of their work.  As time went on I caught myself listening to the new album, Wind, time and time a...

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Review from Melting Album Reviews

Posted by Nick Skog on Tuesday, May 28, 2013, In : Album Reviews 
From: Melting Album Reviews
Published: May 23, 2013
Original Link


There comes a time where those who perceive must question the idealism found in “beauty”. Is it a rose, a glistening sunrise on a picturesque beach or the deep rumble of an American muscle car? Everybody has an opinion that will differ from the next. This extends into, “how is it beautiful?” Rather than focusing on the simpler but unjustified, “yes it is a work of beauty”. More often than not, people are going to see t...

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  FRIGORIS - WIND
 

Released: June 7, 2013
500 Copies
Atmospheric Black Metal

[CO-RELEASE WITH MISANTHROPIC ART PRODUCTIONS]


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