Artist......: Woods of Desolation
     Album.......: Sorh
     Year........: 2022

     Genre.......: Black Metal
     Label.......: Season of Mist Underground Activists
     Cat.No......:

     Source......: WEB (24bit)
     Encoder.....: FLAC 1.3.1
     Quality.....: 1564kbps avg. / 48.0kHz / 2 channels

     Playtime....: 00:32:00  (386.70MB)
     R.date......: 2023-01-06
     S.date......: 2022-09-09

     Website.....: http://open.qobuz.com/album/do25a6s4erwxa


     Disc 1 / 1
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     01. Intro                                                            1:59
     02. The Leaden Sky Torn                                              8:55
     03. Enshrouded by Solitude                                           7:07
     04. Within the Crimson Tide                                          6:56
     05. Cast Unto...                                                     7:03


     "Sorh" is an ideal introduction to the work of the depressive BM band Woods
     of Desolation: it's a short recording of four tracks and might be
     considered a mini-album. After a dreamy and lilting acoustic guitar
     introduction, we are plunged straight into a harsh, all-enveloping
     environment of blizzard BM guitar noise, a blaring guitar line that
     approximates a bugle cry, screeching ghost vocals, thrumming bass and
     (later) solemn thumping drums in the far distant background. The mood seems
     strongly martial though the lyrics of "The Leaden Sky Torn" suggest the
     aftermath of a war in which the dead and dying remain on churned-up and
     bloodied soil. WoD go for an all-out attack in this song and keep it up for
     nine minutes. "Enshrouded by Solitude" picks up the BM-guitar maelstrom and
     stern, severe mood and takes the lot to a different level of melancholy and
     sorrow that includes an interlude of clean guitar melody with a slight echo
     that enhances the music's doleful nature. The quartet concludes with the
     melancholy "Within the Crimson Tide" which in spite of the continuing
     acidic guitar showers has an almost elegiac tone.

     The music follows a narrative from the last moments of life and its
     memories to the point where life fades away and the soul begins a new
     journey...