Completely mesmerizing from start to finish, there’s virtually not a second here that won’t win you over. Just when I was getting a sense of “I’ve seen it all” when it comes to black metal, Im Wald restored my passion and love for the genre in a single, but massive 120-minute fell swoop.

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Im Wald stretches Paysage d'Hiver's most threadbare material to an arduous two hours.

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Sagittarius

Youre hero sagittarius has coming to help make the number score higher!!!! The scary and angry black metal id very good and angry and i like that its angry. I will play this musics album when im angry and dont like the gorvenremenent 😂😂😂😂😂😂🔥🔥🔥🔥 good album and good songs and good sings and good musics and good guitars.
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JustSomeGuy

Two hours of utter destruction and devastation has never sounded so beautiful.

Wintherr started the Paysage d'Hiver project over twenty years ago, and since then he has only been releasing demos, and doing so very infrequently. Each one, from his debut Steineiche in 1998 to his last release Das Tor in 2013, have added something to his sound. While he has very rarely shifted drastically from the usual Burzum-tinged atmospheric black metal that you would expect from him, each release up to now ... read more

MusicNPlants

A perfect antidote to the summer sun!

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AmazingBlizzard

100

a great continuation of Das Tor in which Paysage D'Hiver continues their streak of releasing god tier atmospheric bm. "So hallt es wider" might be a top 20 black metal song of all time for me.

3mo

Flomink

It sounds good, but it's just not for me, and 2 hours of music that isn't really for me can be kind of difficult to listen to. A lot of the sounds throughout this album are really good, but the vocals being mixed as low as they are is something I've seen in a lot of recent albums that's a choice I really can't get behind, and something I think gives albums a listening from the other room type feel that make them really difficult for me to get into.

Also why does every single track start the ... read more

6mo