Vemod's "The Deepening" Honors Their Black Metal Roots (Review)
About a decade or so ago, momentum gathered around a clutch of incestuous Norwegian bands centered on the far-flung city of Trondheim. This concept of “Nidrosian” black metal, referring to the city’s medieval name, had an austere devotion to the country’s extreme musical heritage–namely, the occult, the arcane, and the satanic, funneled through an ugly,...