Monday 29 June 2015

And so another album bought on the recommendation of Prog magazine but this is a weird one because having listened to the album it not really prog....

Kyrr by Kontinuum sounds more like what happens if you're bought up on a diet of Mission and Bauhaus in a country where it's dark for nearly 24 hrs a day in the winter

The 8 songs are split between being sung in English and Icelandic - and those sung in the band's mother tongue sound a bit like Rammstein but without the Nuremberg rally overtones....

The single, Breathe, is a good opening track displaying all the icy grandeur of Peter Murphy and big, big drums straight out of the 80's goth scene. It's all very epic in a Tower of Strength type of way...

Lone  starts out as a welcome distraction of an atmospheric instrumental which ends quietly with acoustic guitar before the two huge closing tracks of In Shallow Seas and Red Stream (the latter featuring some fantastic frenzied keyboard squalls)

As with all Scandinavian metal/rock it retains a uniqueness befitting of the landscape and nature it's created in - see Solstafir for another impressive example of this

Prog were suggesting this as a possible album of the year and it may be but not in the genre they are suggesting

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