Sear Bliss - Pagan Winter + 1 mCD Review

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2007-10-08 : A Black Heart Will Only Find Beauty In Darkness
Well...this is when it all started for these unbelievable hungarians..this album is the Re-release remaster from first ever demo tape with AWSOME!! extra song In the Shadow of Another World which band leader András Nagy handles vocal duties on,,the rest of the songs is drummer Zoltán Csejtei who was the vocalist in the beginning, then Sear Bliss brainchild András Nagy took over as vocalist after first demo and what a voice he has...it's like a old school Quorthon rasp which is WAY better then Zoltán Csejtei,Sear Bliss play EPIC Symphonic/Melodic black metal with trumpets and trombone..i know what your thinking..i was thinking the same thing too but trust me on this when i say it WORKS or this band make it work anyway...it's like when they use the trumpets it add's such a epic and a atmospheric feeling alongside the keyboard & riffs.. it's like nothing you have ever heard before a perfect example of this is the UNBELIEVABLE ...Where the darkness always reigned and In the shadow of another world..,this band have a truly unique take on Melodic/Symphonic black metal and they define there sound,let me put it this way if you want a jist of what they sound like..imagine early Dimmu Borgir's for all tid & stormblast era,and take the best bits out of Enthrone Darkness Triumphant and the best of black metal and mix in some melancholy along with some old school Qourthon style vocals,these guys pull it off big time and they tread there own path unlike most of these mediocre symphonic/melodic black metal bands out there nowadays,i always think of them as a more sophisticated Dimmu Borgir taking that early sound to the next level and beyond..,they better dimmu borgir and are Emperor's equal in making truly atmospheric epic grim black metal..trust me they are that good,simply writing about these guys wont do them any justice you you will understand when you listen to there music,amazon say they do not know when this album will ever be back in stock but i can assure you it will be re-released again next year as this album is like impossible to find,other albums being re-released are album's PHANTOMS and THE HAUNTING,the haunting will be released as a double CD, CD num 1 is the
re-release remastered original and CD num 2 is the remastered and partly
re-recorded with previously unreleased tracks, you can get them at
www.plastic head.com or hopefully amazon will stock it when released which might be erly 2008..

Get this album just for ...Where the darkness always reigned & In the shadow of another world..it is worth it just for the strength of these two epic songs alone,also try the rest of there catalogue as they have not ever released a weak album,but definately start at GLORY AND PERDITION as it is there crowning achievement with band leader András Nagy's good friend Attila Csihar lending his vocals for that album..every time i listen to this band i am always in awe and amazement at the kind of atmosphere and mood this band can conjure & at the same time they are the most headbangiest band i have ever heard,i read a discription about this band's music somewhere that your head will explode with amazement listening to there music and how true that is,this band reek's of something special and it is about time more people supported this shamelessly underrated talented band
By the way KEYBOARDIST WINTER wrote all the lyrics for this album who founded and now plays keyboard in Melodic/Ambient/Black metal band Forest Silence,
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