This is where the Black Metal style truly crosses into another dimension.
While employing plenty of those otherworldly aspects that make for such an imaginative listening experience, Astral, like the name suggests, takes the journey just a little bit further.
Reared in the Czech Republic, they're a mix of medieval grandeur, dark conjuring and
cerebral spirits all in one well-packaged symphonic sophomore release.
This record can be thought of as more haunting in fact than extreme in terms of what we readily accept as "Black" Metal, though elementally, the components are there.