Whoah! Hungary! How weird thou art! Sear Bliss is.... what.... blackened prog... progressive black.... er... then there's the horn section... see where I'm going with this? This is not for those seeking classic Norwegian cult black metal, nor for those who walk in the suicidally depressed fog of loner black metallists like Striborg or Xasthur.
The Arcane Odyssey offers something distinctly different than probably anything else out there. The black metal growl is present, and a lot of the sections and riffs sound true to the black metal idiom, but then the band detours heavily with proggy synth fantasies, acoustic guitar and florid pretty piano passages that have an almost jazzy quality.
And if that wasn't enough - there's the ostensibly real horn sections and solo horn passages that sound pretty bloody amazing and epic. This is a perfect marriage - the trombones and trumpets sound fairly martial and appropos of the epic and mythic quality that black metal so regularly seeks, they also have an early music quality, again, is a perfect match for black metal.
The Arcane Odysssey evokes a mythic nationalism too - featuring very cool cover art by Jozsef Tari. Tari's art illustrates the Hungarian legend of Hadak Utfja (The Road of the Warriors) and two songs that reference the same legend.
The mix of black metal, prog and horn sections sounds like a recipe for disaster. You'd probably expect to laugh trough the whole record but Sear Bliss manages to pull it off amazingly well. The Arcane Odyssey is heavy as hell and the horns are amazing. Metal fans not afraid of pushing onwards into new sonic territories will be richly rewarded by Sear Bliss and their Arcane Odyssey. Frigging awesome.
- Blood on the Milky Way
- A Deathly Illusion
- Lost And Not Found
- Thorns of Deception
- The Venomous Grace
- Omen of Doom
- Somewhere
- Path to the Motherland
Track Listing
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Tue, 12 Aug 2008
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