Published: October 7, 2019

Por enésima vez, desde la Tierra de los Mil Lagos nos llega una obra para analizar. De manos del sello canadiense Hypnotic Dirge Records, recibimos la segunda obra en larga duración del one man band finés KVAL. Proyecto formado en 2016 bajo el nombre de KHAOSSOS y rebautizado cuatro años después, no fue hasta 2017 cuando se editó el debut homónimo, que editó también Hypnotic Dirge. 

He de confesar que este LP, titulado La...

Published: August 24, 2019 

Finland why is always Finland they are truly one of the most inventive and creative places on this Earth for extreme and avant music . This is Atmospheric Post Black metal on the highest of all orders. I love the very ethereal side that the music creates with that  Virus, Code, VBE, Katatonia  vibe. Kval is all about the beauty and the nightares and its what the music and gritty vocal style creates for me . I hear so much experimenta...

Published: August 6, 2019

Una vez más, el verano estaba a punto de acabar. Los interminables días cargados de vida daban paso a la oscuridad y a la muerte. No tenía constancia de cuanto había vivido, pero si sabía que posiblemente aquel fuese su último invierno. Echó la vista atrás y recordó la suerte que tuvo al encontrar aquel árbol moribundo. Tenía un gran agujero en su corteza que le resultó perfecto para crear su mortal trampa. Nunca se s...

Published: July 31, 2019

Kval è la creatura del giovane Miro Lamo, blackster finlandese di stanza da qualche parte nei dintorni di Helsinki. Laho, marcio in finlandese, è il secondo album con questo monicker, ma in realtà soltanto il primo a essere pensato specificamente per questo progetto: il debutto omonimo Kval (2017), infatti, non era altro che una ristampa con una veste ripensata di Kuolonkuu, disco che Lamo pubblicò nel 2015 come Khaossos, il p...

Published: July 16, 2019

Po ostatnich średnich i powiedzmy sobie szczerze, słabych płytach z kręgów atmosferycznego black metalu, nie miałem ochoty już na przeprawy z tego typu kapelami. W ręce wpadła mi jednak druga płyta fińskiego Kval. I się skusiłem… Raz, że mam słabość do fińskiej sceny, a dwa, że lubię Finów :)

Kval to projekt, w którym władzę absolutną i niepodzielną sprawuje… Kval, który jest jedynym członkiem projektu, a pod...

Published: July 10, 2019

So it’s back to life, emptiness and chaos from the solo artist Kval from Finland who professes to a liking for Burzum. This is a follow up to his impressively bleak self-titled release of 2017.

“Laho” comprises five weighty pieces. From the outset we are transported to a cold world of despair and greyness. The delicate acoustic tones and ringing backdrop provide momentary pause for reflection, but make no mistake: this is a harsh, men...

Published: June 16, 2019

Kval is chill, relaxation, atmospheric, one-person black metal from Finland. The vocals are extreme, but they are not super harsh and end up sounding almost as background landscape. Keyboards are important and for fans of this genre, this is something along the lines of the aural themes of forests-and-mountains vibes. It is chill rock with a bit of tremolo picking and some gentle-giant, softer growled vocals. Some of this music is just ...

Published: June 9, 2019 
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While early Spring may bring the thaw its mid and late Spring that anchors the bloom and coloring of the waking world. Finnish artist Kval and his second album Laho is a fitting musical accompaniment to that greening, a contemplative and unhurried experience. Atmospheric black metal as likely only would emerge from Finland.

To reiterate: Laho goes many places and takes its time (each time) to get there. Melody and sustained atmosphere are...

Published: June 4, 2019 

KVAL - translating to "anguish" in English - is an atmospheric ambient Black Metal band from Vantaa, Finland. Founded in 2012 under the name KHAOSSOS, the project began by recording a demo, EP and a split albums with 1389 and AURIAL as well as a debut album entitled “Kuolonkuu (Deathmoon).” Cold and dark mid-paced melodic Black Metal with catchy icy riffs coated in frost permeated the output of KHAOSSOS, conveying emptiness and the so...