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country: POL
label: Pagan Records
year: 2012
format: CD
Condition: New
Fitting to the album name, The Hierophant opens with sounds of hymns being sung in a chapel, but with tormented screams raising the hair on the backs of listeners, and before long the band begins their onslaught, and straight away the improvement in the band’s musicianship is noticed, compared to 2010?s slightly less polished effort. The musical style almost reminds listeners of albums such as Watain‘s later works, with the clean production quality and the large melodies that are present on the songs, and this is certainly a good thing as it grabs the listener’s attention from the start and maintains it throughout.
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Existing at the forefront of the Polish black metal movement, Blaze Of Perdition return in 2024 with their sixth full-length, Upharsin – a product of the band members environments and is somehow a step back to a more orthodox approach of black metal.
Having their previous album The Harrowing Of Hearts released right before the beginning of a global pandemic was a setback for Blaze Of Perdition since all touring plans on both sides of the pond were reduced to ash and the band consquently went on some sort of hiatus. Blaze Of Perdition still played a handful of shows from time to time but mainmen S. and XCIII decided to mainly focus on their other bands Manbryne and Piolun respectively for a while.
Musically, Upharsin is a step back from the somewhat unusual direction the band followed on The Harrowing of Hearts. A rather dark and pessimistic tone is reflected by appropriately opressive music. Haunting and melancholic melodies rooted in traditional black metal meet unforgiving blastbeats and solemn marches, while emotional yet feral vocals aim to bring a proper sense of rage and disgust.
