Through Chasm, Caves and Titan Woods stands apart, for me at least, from the rest of the Carpathian Forest catalog, which is generally a bit more filthy and with a blackened punk vibe. This though... this is wondrous, haunting, mysterious and hypnotically beautiful; not a million miles away from the "magic spell" days of Burzum, back when black metal was transcendental yet didn't need to declare itself as such, back when it was atmospheric and dreamy but not populated by fucking hipsters and crap tell-all movies. It didn't blow my head off a la Revenge or 1349, but this is still a stunning slab of black metal.
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