#1291 Thorns - Thorns

I'm new to black metal, more used to the bass-driven sound of, well, damn near everything else. This is so light, so quick and clean and bristling with subtle industrial details that it feels less like a slumbering god, more like eldritch quicksilver, gaining power not from hammerfall but from the speed of a thousand blades. Still terrifying, still overwhelming, this is fast zombies, this is instant death. The stylistic swerves, the changes in tempo and tone, its fucking thrilling, a viciously perfect killing machine 4/5