EMPYRIUM — Where at Night the Wood Grouse Plays (review)

EMPYRIUM — Where at Night the Wood Grouse Plays album cover Album · 1999 · Non-Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
4.5/5 ·
Warthur
Empyrium abandoned metal entirely after Songs of Moors and Misty Fields and instead went a pure folk direction on Where at Night the Wood Grouse Plays. Having originally come to it after exposure to their metal work, I couldn't help but feel disappointed, but after digesting more works in the dark folk field that this is part of (and helped to kick off) I find that it's grown on me more and more, to the point where in comparison to Weiland I think this is the best of Empyrium's folk-oriented albums, just as its predecessor Songs of Moors and Misty Fields was the best of their metal-oriented releases. One for fans of Tenhi, or Ulver's Kveldssanger.
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