For What We Are About To Receive…
Albeit nine years later, we are truly grateful that our Swedish cousins Vildhjarta, have shown their hand before this year is up. It’s been a fantastic year for metal, and this wild card entry has upped the ante for single of the year. The track ‘Den Helige Anden’ ( The Holy Other, according to Google), has set the cat amongst the pigeons my friends and rightly so.
There is something for everyone here with its chugging, droning, death growls, all interspersed with the ambient, velvety tones, this is the comeback of comebacks. Roll on 2020 for the release of ‘Kaos 2’ in anticipation of more mean, moody, melancholic and melody driven material. It may not be for the faint-hearted, but it is a magnet for the wild hearted. The direction changes wield an exceptional power and subtlety too; leaving me quite breathless. This song goes where no man, woman or beast has probably ventured before, so sound the sirens my friends and let’s take a walk on the wild side!
Vildhjarta – Den Helige Anden out now via Century Media Records.