Published: May 21, 2019 

Kotimainen yhden miehen black metal -projekti KVAL nostatteli pari vuotta sitten alan harrastajien kulmakarvoja erinomaisella debyytillään, ja iskee nyt muutaman vuoden hengähdystauon jälkeen mustan tikarinsa kuulijan sieluun uudella ”LAHO”-nimeä kantavalla albumilla. Sitä tietää myös olevansa tekemisissä ehdan underground-materiaalin kanssa, kun arviointipöydälle tipahtaa poltettu CD-levy ja saatetekstin virkaa toimittaa...

Published: May 21, 2019 

Whilst the genre is typically associated with autumnal beauty and an accompanying sense of majesty, there is potential for atmospheric black metal to express something darker; for the path in the woods to become obscured, for the plants to be covered in thorns and the shadows be home to danger. Such is the case for Laho, the second album from Finnish band Kval. Translating to “rotten”, Laho is intended as a metaphor for the human mind...

Published: May 21, 2019 

Kval are a black metal band from Finland and this is their second album.

I’ve been greatly anticipating the next Kval release, as the band’s 2017 self titled debut album was quite the underground find. The debut seemed to be a solo affair, whereas this new one seems to have added a guitarist.

Laho is the sound of an artist recognising what he did so well in the past, and expanding upon it for his follow up album. The core of the musi...

Published: May 20, 2019 

Dedicated to forest floor decay as an allegory for brain-rot, Laho is ceaseless in its persistence and beautiful in its grimness. Kval has been simultaneously delicate and existentially unstoppable with this release, offering extended moments of gentle reprieve from the black metal onslaught to pad the album’s dynamics. This is an album of many dualities — slow/fast, big/small, hard/soft — and exploring each one through its atm...

Olá bangers, hoje trazendo novamente Kval, projeto de Black Metal finlandês desenvolvido pela dupla Isaac Arcturian e Kval, já resenhado aqui no blog, desta vez, trazendo seu recente lançamento, Laho, direto do forno. Recapitulando para os acompanhantes do blog que chegaram agora, Kval consiste em um projeto desenvolvido em 2012, tendo seu trabalho de estreia, “Kval”, lançado em 2017, e agora sucedido de última hora. Laho, exibe...

Kval  are  a  solo  project  from  finland  that  has  had  music reviewed  before  in  this  zine  and  plays  an  atmospheric  form  of  black  metal  and  this  is  a  review of  their  2019  album  "laho"  which  will  be  released  on  may  23rd  by  hypnotic  dirge  records. 

Acoustic  guitar  playing  starts  off  the  album  before  going  into  a  heavier  musical  direction  which  also  introduces  high  pitched  black...