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Kôr

The Horns of Ylmir

November 10th, 2021

Immediately impressive, this album wastes no time in grabbing the black metal listener’s attention. Musically, it is rather traditional: shrieking, howling vocals; tremolo, spiraling guitar work and melodies; and a generally grim-style delivery of the material. Having said, though, there is another side of the coin. A certain sensibility for the epic yet raw execution reaches out for an intellectual or literary feel to the music, given that they say that their lyrics are based on Tolkien. A simple way to describe it is quality melodic-melacholic uptempo/fast black metal. Highly recommended.

This project is Bavragor on drums (2021-present) [Balnasar, Grail, Shores of Ladon, Shroud of Satan, ex-Aigilas, ex-Vindorn (live)] and St. on vocals, guitars, bass (2021-present) [Cold Earth, Fullmoon Lunacy, Grail, Shores of Ladon, Shroud of Satan, Thorybos, ex-Skady (live)]. While some of these other projects are a bit more frenzied than this one, Kôr is more elegant but still intense black metal, just not full 100% raging black metal all the time.

The Horns of Ylmir by Kôr