STILLA
Ensamhetens andar - Ltd

A carefully and passionately written album with a touch that reminds of great elder Scandinavian acts such as Kvist, Isvind, Tulus among others but not without a strong identity of its own. “Till Stilla Falla” proves once and for all that it is still possible to capture the spirit reminiscent to the eerie old northbound magic that this kind of music invoked in the past - which is something very seldom seen these days. With transcendental riffing, immense keyboards, stargazing bass lines & and ghastly vocals STILLA will bring you back to the mystifying days of when “Black Metal” was imbued with the mysteries of the northern nature!

 

With Skuggflock (Shadowpack). The third offering. Stilla returns with yet another monumental recording that reeks of aggressive, beautiful and melancholic metal. After two years of silence Stilla now slightly moves out from the shadows and once again we get the opportunity to experience the very typical rugged Stilla sound we first heard on their 2013 album Till stilla falla. Here blended with inspiration and emotions not far away from what the prog-rockers Goblin achieved with D. Argento in the 70's.

Stilla has always created their own unique style of Scandinavian Black Metal where the sound more then seldom travels into the nostalgic 90's mid era.
 

As the seasons converge and the wind blows in cold from the north, Stilla are restless once more – urged on by the powerful forces of nature to transform these earthly energies into a bittersweet maelstrom, bleak and yet strangely comforting for those awaiting news from Sweden. Exploring the outer limits of the human sensory condition and challenging the boundaries of experience, Stilla ask us to reach out and contact our primal nature and to get creative. Synviljor is similar in etymology to ‘synvillor’, which means ‘optical illusion’ in English. This little titbit may or may not be a coincidence, but without doubt it is, in a way, an appropriate analogy for the band’s oeuvre, wont as the album artwork for their albums are to draw you in to expecting a rather palatable form of Nordic, nature inspired black metal only for a more acerbic, biting attack on the senses. Synviljor epitomises this Loki-esque playful trick of the mind more than ever as the vitriol cuts deeper than ever before – perhaps a portent of the coldest, harshest winter to come.