This man can hit some extremely high notes while singing and it's definitely a treat. Now Garm is one of my favorite black metal vocalists, but he doesn't have the range that Vortex has. Their harsh vocals sound very much the same. In fact if this album was just made up of black metal vocals then you probably wouldn't even be able to tell the diffence. Both men have vocal styles that consist of using both black metal shrieks and very operatic, clean singing.
Garm has been replaced by a man who most people in the black metal scene know as Dimmu Borgir's former bassist and that man is ICS Vortex, or simply just Vortex.
So maybe this album doesn't have the supergroup line-up that they had on their first album or the strong folk metal influences that it did on early albums, but what it does have is enough catchiness, melody, and atmosphere to give you one hell of a melodic black metal album.įirst off, what most people are going to notice about this album is the fact that Garm is no longer apart of Borknagar at this point in the band's career. Well you should think again because this album is just as worthy as all of those other releases. I highly doubt many people associate their third release, The Archaic Course with some of their better albums. Maybe some people think of their more folk black metal oriented sound on their self-titled album and The Olden Domain. Whenever the name Borknagar comes up most people probably think of either their newer, more progressive albums such as Empiricism. Review Summary: One of Borknagar's most underrated albums.
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