Additional black metal sightseeing tours have been added, and the National Library of Norway announces an exhibition of Norwegian black metal opening in April.
Finnish masters of melancholic dark metal, Amorphis, have released the music video for the song “Hopeless Days” from the band’s upcoming album, Circle.
Like Paradise Lost, Amorphis seems bent on encompassing their catalogue and compressing it into diamonds of progressive, note-dense, mostly quite heavy tracks.
Enigmatic lead singer Pasi Koskinen’s swansong is an interesting, not altogether successful, return to heaviness, although it’s more la trip to a new heaviness.
Metal is alive and well and living in Europe. Americans futz with knuckledragging nü metal and ’til-you-grow-outta-it hardcore, European metal pushes forward.