Reviews list for Teitanblood - The Baneful Choir (2019)

December 2023 Feature of the month for The North. Happy it was, because this is great black metal. It's listed under War Metal, and I have still yet to truly understand what that means. This is the perfect music to sleep too for me, now hear me out here. Not sure how many people need white noise or similar to sleep, but this is definitely the white noise of metal or black metal if you will. The beats are pretty consistent throughout while many albums have moments of dipping in BPM or multiple time signatures or overtly catchy riffs that keep my mind racing in thought. Also helps that I don't understand the vocals at all, I am not the best at understanding lyrics in songs but I can tend to words screamed or growled here and there especially on multiple listen throughs. I'm not sure if they are in English, but if so I might be able to figure out something here and there but this album is so easy to turn my brain off and relax too. I doubt what that's what they were going for, but it truly allows me to just turn off and meditate to. There is something calming behind the dark black metal guitars and drumming. This never gets boring either, while I did easily wind down to this I also could tell some interesting riffs and melodies made it even easier to fall back into. I don't want to give it a full 5 star until I live with this album longer but after my initial reactions it's only because of how I did lose attention so much so to this album and I do wonder on multiple relistens will it still have the same affect or if it's not one that can be listened to on repeat but a great one to put on once in a while.