The Black Swords of Winter

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7.5

• Band:
  Ninkharsag
• Duration: 00:23:23
• Available since: 07/03/2025
• Label:

• Revenge Records

Ninkharsag likes the dissection.
Ninkharsag really like dissection.
But the Ninkharsag also really like Sacramentum, Lord Belial, Dawn (especially the very first), Mörk Gryning and Bella Company.
But above all, the Ninkharsag are good in what they do – and a lot.
After making the Melodic Black Metal talk about the second full-length, the excellent “The Dread March of Solemn Gods” of 2021, the British recur on the market four years later with this full-bodied EP (five songs most introduced) entitled “The Black Swords of Winter”, ready to force their centrality inside the movement, are spoken. How? Balling on the listener twenty -four little minutes of black metal without a doubt melodic, but also furious like never before.
To put things in clear, after a short atmospheric intro and gloomy as tradition commands, the Title-Track torrential takes care of it; An authentic abdilate in the face, packaged by a band that once demonstrates the total mastery of one's means and their writing already on display in the recent past. As per practice, the melodic constructions of ours shy every possible pious and, albeit omnipresent, never go to the detriment of the pure riffing, nor of the aggression, which is constant and relentlessly.
This, if on the one hand it gives the EP a truly murderer shot, on the other makes numerous plays necessary to be able to fully enjoy the enormous work done by the good Paul, Jay, Kyle and Aleksandar during the composition phase (increasing, in fact, the longevity of an EP containing a lot, really a lot, meat on fire); It will be difficult, for fans of the genre, not to be wired by the black spires of songs such as “The Serpent of the Void” or “The Grave Sworn Lords”.
The Ninkharsag, moreover, show that they are also attentive to the evolution that the genre has had over the years: therefore, here is, among the furrows of the long and final “Beneath the Cloack of Nightfall”, juicy echoes of the most belligerent Watains, which give the song (without a doubt the most structured of the lot, and among the absolute highlights of the EP) an even greater penetrative force). By closing in the best way, a job as short as it succeeded, that we hope we can be the prelude to a return on the long distance equally convincing.