ANCIENT GUARD
Nightfall Enthroned

ANCIENT GUARD is a new creation of Nightwolf, renown for pagan black metal vanguard RUNESPELL. As expected, his unmistakable mastery is all across Nightfall Enthroned, ANCIENT GUARD's first public work. A surprisingly vast mini-album at four songs in 31 minutes, Nightfall Enthroned is immersive to the extreme and almost soothing in its continually cresting swell of sumptuous black metal mysticism. While RUNESPELL's no-less-grandiose sound is oft given to bouts of bloodlust and battle rage, ANCIENT GUARD is pure magisterial march & might as can be expected of such a moniker. And Nighttwolf's knack for mesmerizing melodicism holds true here, as well, but if one could make distinctions in this regard, it's that Nightfall Enthroned swirls about to a spacious-yet-thick foundation that's equal parts stargazing wonder and weight-of-the-universe terror - an infinitely compelling canvas equally suited to adrift dreamers and austere realists alike. Followed by the acoustic lament "Eld," the synth-heavy epic "A Moonscape Abyss" says exactly everything it needs to about ANCIENT GUARD: awaken to Nightfall Enthroned!