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Hornwood Fell – Hornwood Fell

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Last Updated on 04:17 AM by Giorgos Tsekas

Genre: Black Metal
Country: Italy
Label: Avantgarde Music
Year: 2014

This is Black Metal! Pure, “physical”, obscure and solid Black Metal music is on the way to our ears. This mix is coming from an Italian band, a trio called Hornwood Fell (H-W-F), which is formed in May 2013.

Rhythms, compositions, feelings, playing and production are “talking” to the deepest cold thoughts of our brains! Maybe vocals aren’t too blacky as other instruments but still remain shrill. Guitars are dirty and in some parts quite obsessive, as the whole style of the album is, drums follow the specific paths of blast beats and fast pieces with double-bass drum and, finally, bass fulfill the compositions in a perfect way but sometimes it’s too intense to be there!

It’s needed to be mentioned that the last song “VinterFresa pt. 2” enclose the overall sense of this recording despite it’s an instrumental track. Clear guitars in combination with some sounds from the dark and fear create a fantastic atmosphere which is, maybe, the most appropriate for ending a journey into frost winter and at the same time it prepares us for their next Black Metal attack.

As they have already said their biggest influences are Ulver, Borknagar (early years), Satyricon, Burzum and Darkthrone. But this is no mean that H-W-F is “behind the bars”! Actually, Italians make their child-dream of playing Black Metal true by studying and learning very well the ’90 Nordic Black Metal scene in general and having the passion to play it. It isn’t a fulsome praise to say that H-W-F would be one of the greatest during ‘90s when this kind of music was “spreading its soul”!

RECOMMENDED SONGS: “Cerqua”, “L’Ira”, “Mutavento” and “Vinter Fresa part 1”.

4,5/6

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