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Album Review: Saor – Origins

Freshly back from his second album under the also solitary but more overtly blackened FUATH moniker, Andy Marshall returns with Origins, and it’s here we find SAOR returning to its, erm, Roots, yet looking brightly, brilliantly forward. Contemplative from the onset, ‘Call Of The Carnyx’ rolls in like fog across the moors, a hypnotic guitar phrasing, clan drums calling, beckoning to join, to heed the harkening. Soon enough, the fires are lit, and an energetic phrasing is held aloft by galloping rhythm, just as quickly to return to a brief gentler moment – and this is where the strength of […]

WAYFARER: Denver Black Metal Outfit Announces North American Summer Tour With Saor; Euro Tour Underway

Denver, Colorado black metal outfit WAYFARER announces a run of North American tour dates for this summer with Scotland’s SAOR, as they continue to support their latest LP, World’s Blood, released last year through Profound Lore Records. WAYFARER continues their latest tour across Europe, which included a triumphant performance at Roadburn last week. The current trek stretches onward for another two weeks, the final show taking place in Krakow, Poland on April 27th. A month after their stateside return, WAYFARER will initiate their Spring MMXIX Tour on May 22nd in their hometown of Denver, with shows following in Oakland, Eugene, […]