Foscor
Groans to the Guilty (2009)
Album

Reviewed: 8/4/2009

Quality black metal gets rarer and rarer to be found. One thing that has slithered its poisonous substance into the black metal is commercialism. The other usually negative aspect is so called "bedroom black metal", people record and release their train of thought without any critique from outsiders. Anyway, the quality is still there, but it needs more digging of the black soil or a good strike of luck to be found really. This is where Foscor ascend like a shining star. In the band's native Catalan, the word "foscor" means "darkness". Foscor emphasise, that they "perform dark black metal exclusively." The band have been most of all influenced by Nordic black metal, the pretty straightforward style of it (I can easily throw some names in the air, such as old Borknagar, Satyricon and Shini...

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