BIZARREKULT – Alt Som Finnes

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• Bands:
  BIZARREKULT
• Duration: 00:42:45
• Available from: 02/20/2026
• Label:

• Season Of Mist

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We already had excellent memories of Bizarrekult, a post-black project created by Roman V., a Siberian musician who moved to Norway. His second album, “Den Tapte Krigen”, represented a very solid example of how it was possible to combine black metal and post rock melancholy with personality and elegance, without abusing already widely explored clichés and truly putting music at the service of his own poetics, a central component in Roman's writing.

The new “Alt Som Finnes” continues the same argument, but with a higher degree of maturity, especially in the arrangements and in the balance between the two souls of the band.
The musical plot does not move through contrasts, but manages to integrate the most extreme and delicate passages with surprising naturalness. Even when one of the two components prevails over the other, the sensation when listening is never that of a conflict, but of a constructive dialogue, in which silences are as important as words.
Furthermore, we are very pleased to see how the band has also managed to overcome the only flaw detected at the time of “Den Tapte Krigen”, namely a certain static nature in the guitar parts, which we had hypothesized could be the result of Roman's peculiar training path, who was born first as a lyricist and only later as a musician and singer. In “Alt Som Finnes”, in fact, the leader was supported and helped by instrumentalists and guests capable of contributing considerably to giving shape to Roman's universe: guitars, bass and drums were in fact handled by two of his collaborators, Ignat Pomazkov and Alexander Pryakhin, while Lina R. contributes with some velvety and persuasive vocal interventions.

The result of this sharing translates into more incisive guitars, as in the case of the excellent “Verdens Verste”; greater care in the instrumental fabric and also in a more in-depth management of the voices, which see the presence of some guests, such as Kim Song Sternkopf of Møl or Yusaf 'Vicotnik' Parvez (Dødheimsgard), who, for example, ends up leaving his personal and disturbing imprint on the excellent “Blikket Hennes”.
The mood of the album, just like the cover – which this time abandons the whiteness of the first two full-lengths in favor of black – is undoubtedly more angry and desperate, leaving only a few episodes for the more delicate side of the project to emerge.
This is the case of “Håp” – 'hope'not surprisingly – the second half of “Drøm”, or some passages of “Tomhet”. A little more evident than in the past, however, are certain blackgaze inflections, with references to bands like Deafheaven and Alcest that are particularly clear in a song like “Aversjon”.

Ultimately, “Alt Som Finnes” confirms and at the same time expands the expressive potential of Bizarrekult, transforming the intuitions of the past into a more complete and conscious form, and coherently carrying forward Roman's vision in a project that, step by step, is clearly tracing its own path within the already rich contemporary post-black panorama.