Reviews list for Alda - Tahoma (2011)

Atmospheric Black Metal is one of my favourite musical genres when done well and here Alda do it very well indeed. Like compatriots Panopticon, Alda manage to conjure up visions of forests, streams and mountains in the mind's eye using only basic black metal instrumentation (with the occasional acoustic supplementation) and a whole lot of skill and imagination. The tracks on offer here are just so well done that you never even notice how lo-fi it all is, either. Excellent stuff and if you're at all interested in USBM then check it out.