Published: December 1, 2020

Segunda larga duración para los suecos, un segundo álbum que sigue la línea de su predecesor y entrega un sonido black de corte clásico, con elementos blackened death metal y doom. Un álbum que en poco más de cuarenta minutos se despacha a gusto con una propuesta directa y muy potente, en donde la contundencia del conjunto esta fuera de toda duda, al mismo tiempo que logra un sonido muy compacto que tanto nos retrotrae a me...

Published: November 29, 2020

La psicologia analitica è una teoria psicologica e tecnica d’analisi del profondo elaborata dal celebre psichiatra svizzero Carl Gustav Jung, il quale ipotizzò l’esistenza di un inconscio collettivo comune a tutti gli esseri umani e composto dagli archetipi, che si manifestano in ogni individuo, popolo e cultura. Tra i principali archetipi, accanto al Sé (insieme contenente ogni esperienza psichica) e la Persona (immagi...

Published: October 26, 2020

If I was a Bond villain looking to hold the world to ransom by destabilising the Black Metal community (unlikely but stay with me here), my nefarious plot would involve removing the letter “v” from all keyboards being manufactured. Imagine the consternation and beating of breasts that would occur if corpse painted folks could no longer replace “f”s or “u”s with that pointy toothsome letter! Maybe they could move to something...

Published: October 13, 2020

L’uggiosa atmosfera autunnale si presta in particolar modo all’analisi di “I Djävulens Avbild”, ultima fatica in studio degli svedesi Ov Shadows. Il quartetto di Gothenburg presenta quest’album come una solida composizione di black metal svedese moderno: non parliamo dichiaratamente di un concept album, ma il percorso delineato dalla band nella fruizione dei sette brani proposti invita alla contemplazione dell’oscurità che ...

Published: September 12, 2020

Ov Shadows fly in to deliver you a glacial slab of black metal all the way from Sweden, and boy are their arms tired...

    ...not from flapping their would-be wings, of course, which I’m sure would be covered in tar-black feathers. Either that or something resembling a bat’s wings. Black Metal Animorphs, anyone? Just me? Okay... no, in all seriousness, where these black metal bands get the stamina to deliver these absolutely ...

Published: September 2, 2020

Swedish black metallers Ov Shadows are back with their second full length album “I Djävulens Avbild” their first release on Hypnotic Dirge records.

Their first full length ”The Darkness Between Stars” (2018) was a relentless assault of chaotic black metal, proving that the experience and fluidity the members gained in Gothenburg’s Waning, in which they all played together, would be carried over to this new project. “...

Published: August 31, 2020

Por Jorge López Novales.

En tiempos de incertidumbre cae en mis manos el segundo larga duración de la banda sueca Ov Shadows, “I Djävulens Avbild” (traducido como “In the Devil's Image”). Ha coincidido que mi estado de ánimo ahora mismo necesitaba metal extremo y no podía haber encontrado mejor solución. A los pocos segundos de escucha ya me había sumergido en su oscuridad.

¿A que suenan los de Gotemburgo? Ov Sha...

Published: August 31, 2020

Nascendo das cinzas da horda "Waning", e com uma aura sonora totalmente obscura lembrando a escola sueca do estilo que sempre revelou nomes como o grande Dark Funeral, seu primeiro EP foi lançado em 2016  Monologues  que foi muito bem recebido que logo depois tivemos "The Darkness Between Stars". E provando que eles não apenas uma promessa e sim uma realidade no cenário europeu, agora tivemos "I Djävulens Avbild" (Na imagem d...

Published: August 27, 2020 

OV SHADOWS is a Swedish black metal band and "I Djävulens Avbild" is their second full length release; they released an EP in 2016. This album is really crazy—-it is one-part full steam ahead, no holds barred black metal. Tremolo picking, inhuman drumming and blackened shrieks are some elements at play that will blast your ear hole. However, there is more to the album than cold from the void speed and aggression. The other part is l...

Published: August 22, 2020

Now this is black metal. Don’t take that as an endorsment of quality,

necessarily…just that if you’re putting Nubivagant on the same shelf as Ov Shadows, you’ll know instantly which one doesn’t belong.

Even so, this is pretty solid Swedish school black metal, not quite the empty pursuit of speed that is Norsecore, but still falling well within the sonic radar of bands that have at least dipped their toes into if not become i...

Published: August 23, 2020 

Swedish newcomers to the black metal scene Ov Shadows have now released their second full-length on the eclectic and radical label Hypnotic Dirge Records out of Canada. Continuing the lasting legacy established by their homeland of only producing top-caliber black metal for the feeble masses, Ov Shadows arose from the ashes of Waning (and members also performed in acts such as Slaughtercult and Clonaeon) to create a classic sound of death...

Published: August 20, 2020

Arising from the darkest pits of Gothenburg, this Swedish horde is ready to stun us all once again with the Atmospheric Black Metal guided by chaos and darkness from their sophomore opus.

Gothenburg, Sweden’s own Black Metal entity Ov Shadows is rising once again form the pits of the underworld to stun us all with their sophomore full-length opus, titled I Djävulens Avbild, which translates to English as “In the Devil’s I...

Published: August 14, 2020

Je regretterai toujours un peu le split de Waning, groupe suédois qui avait su à la fois moderniser une base Black-Metal progressif et l’arborer d’un apparat plus froid et mécanique qui fonctionnait à merveille. L’excellent The Human Condition (2012), son second album, restera son testament et son manifeste, même si le groupe aura ensuite sorti 2 EPs avec un line-up amputé de son premier chanteur, avant d’arrêter les frais en...

Published: August 14, 2020

Ov Shadows ontstond uit de restanten van het eveneens uit Zweden afkomstige Waning. De vier heren brachten ergens in 2016 hun eerste EP uit, Monologues. Een EP die zich kenmerkte door bevreemdende black metal met hier en daar een injectie van industriële klanken, of zo staat het toch geschreven. Het daaropvolgende The Darkness Between Stars fietste vrolijk verder op dezelfde tarmac maar ditmaal kreeg je deze naargeestige blackmetalvar...

Published: August 14, 2020

Aus dem schwedischen Göteborg, eigentlich der Inbegriff für Melodic Death Metal, kommt die Black Metal Band OV SHADOWS, die erstmals 2016 mit der EP “Monologues” auf den Plan traten. Dass die Jungs eigentlich in der kurz zuvor aufgelösten Black Metal Kapelle ‘Waning’ spielten, merkte man schnell an der Qualität der neuen Songs unter neuer Flagge. Im Februar 2018 folgte dann mit “The darkness between lights” das Deb�...

Published: August 14, 2020

Psychoanalysis was a truly revolutionary idea. Up to that point, it was believed that what you see, what you can experience with your senses – that’s all there was. But obnoxious motherfucker Freud1 came around and screwed that up. Suddenly we realize through him (in his diagnoses of traumatized World War 1 veterans) that the mind, the personality, and behavior is influenced perhaps by forces of which we are not necessarily aware...

Published: August 13, 2020 

Too many bands reach forward, not enough reach inward. A lot of acclaimed music is plowing through the present and the past, trying to find the next new thing. New sounds, new fusions, new genres. It’s the easiest way to stick out. However, music can be iterative. Just because someone made an album twenty years ago doesn’t mean that you can’t do it better. Enter Swedish metallers Ov Shadows. Their attack on their sophomore album ...

Published: August 13, 2020 

Ov Shadows are a Swedish black metal band and this is their second album.

Featuring a member of Obitus, Ov Shadows play ferocious, yet textured, black metal that should find favour with fans of bands such as Dark Funeral, Nordjevel, Nightbringer, Barshasketh, etc.

I Djävulens Avbild contains 43 minutes of blistering black metal, performed at withering speeds for much of the time. The pace does change, to be fair, but this album is ne...

Published: August 6, 2020 

A Suécia é uma verdadeira potência quando o tema é Heavy Metal (e Metal Extremo) . Afirmação essa que é facilmente comprovada e reforçada quando vamos à memória e resgatamos dela medalhões do valor do Candlemass, Bathory, Dissection, Hypocrisy, Edge Of Sanity e Marduk (ficando nos óbvios e sem entrar na “The Gothemburg Sound” – com todos os inúmeros componentes desta cena).

O fato é que o país jamais perdeu sequer mi...

Published: August 5, 2020

Nach dem sehr starken Debüt „The Darkness Between Stars“ (2018) legen die Black Metal Puristen OV SHADOWS nun mit ihrem Zweitwerk „I Djävulens Avbild“ nach.

Klirrende Kälte, die sich wie ein Eispflock tief in das Herz bohrt, das Blut in den Adern gefrieren lässt und unweigerlich den fröstelnden Tod bringt. So oder so ähnlich lässt sich der tiefschwarze Black Metal der Schweden am ehesten charakterisieren. Stücke wie der bitte...

Published: July 22, 2020

Black metal is as diverse as regional accents. Some accents sound like an angel pouring honey into your ear, others sound like a dead zombie slug crawling out of it. Ov Shadows fall in the first category since they make really solid black metal. No keyboards or time-consuming interludes, just guitars, bass, drums and vocals and that's it. 

The band recorded, mastered and mixed 'I Djävulens Avbild' themselves, and they did an amazing job....

Published: July 22, 2020

If you’re not familiar with Ov Shadows, you are not alone. Until I received their promo, I had never heard of them. But as I familiarized myself with their discography (their 2016 EP Monologues and their 2018 LP The Darkness Between Stars), I had to keep asking myself how come such a great black metal band had gone unnoticed.

From the very start, I Djävulens Avbild (“In the Devil’s Image”) grabs you hard, and doesn’t let go until...