I wasn't expecting this. I wasn't expecting the keyboards flying directly in the face of the raw, discordant black metal. I wasn't expecting the melodies lurking under the distorted bombast, to find hooks in the murky blasts. Everything sounds like it was captured on an AM radio, perhaps a dashboard unit in a battered Ford LTD (my pal Todd drove a grey one in the early '90s and I still miss that car). I also wasn't expecting that OPHIDIAN FOREST would be the product of a dude who drummed for the last incarnation of UTTER BASTARD. I got all of those things and more. Susurrus was released in 2016 and I wasn't expecting to find like a half-dozen more OPHIDIAN FOREST releases that I need to dig into....I got that too.
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