Wykan

Wykan

Brigid: Of The Night

7 June 2019

There are only three songs on here, but there is enough to know what the deal is. The first song begins in an awesome way. Bluesy and slow guitar, taking it slow and easy. Very nice three minutes, then guitar change and it’s now a black metal guitar tone playing some Iommiesque vibes, with necro black metal screams over it. What do we have here? The black metal blues? It’s the black metal blues! The thing is, this is not bluesy as the blues fans would like, it is not black metal enough as the die-hards want, and it is not as slow and doomy as the devoted stoners would demand, and this might be exactly the point of this band. Confuse everyone and rock with everyone. Do you know what probably happened? These three musicians did not want to be in the same band because the vocalist wanted to form a black metal group, the guitar player just sits at home listening to the first four Black Sabbath albums and old Pink Floyd stuff religiously, and the drummer prefers to avoid human contact. However, they had to join together because they could not find the right people in their neighborhood and that’s how they got together in my fictitious account of their biography. The black metal blues might surprise you. Here is an important question for the future: How will this band continue making progress in their quest to transition smoothly between the genres within the songs? wykan.bandcamp.com/album/brigid-of-the-night