PAYSAGE D'HIVER — Paysage d'Hiver (review)

PAYSAGE D'HIVER — Paysage d'Hiver album cover Album · 1999 · Atmospheric Black Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
4.5/5 ·
Warthur
Tobias Möckl - AKA Wintherr - isn't exactly one to make a fanfare, with all of Paysage d'Hiver's work emerging as demo tapes at first (a select few, such as this one, have enjoyed subsequent CD releases). Here, though, you get the impression that a statement is being made about what the project is all about. It's not just the fact that the album is self-titled - though it is notable that Paysage put out a few tapes before coming around to this one - but on top of that it's also a remarkably confident musical statement, essentially taking the aesthetic of early Burzum, freezing it down to absolute zero, and then absolutely going to town on it. The lo-fi production is precisely what is needed to turn the guitars into a howling wail not unlike the blizzards the wintry material puts you in mind of, as Wintherr shrieks incoherently like a lost soul trying to stumble out of the snowstorm. Great stuff.
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