Procer Veneficus - GhostVoices [God Is A Myth Records - 2007]Procer Veneficus rebirth Black metal into a folk format, but not in the discordant jagged form someone like Dark Raven choir has done. This has a timeless lovecaft quality of soothing blackness about it. The eerier fog enshrouded picked and strummed guitars are hovered underneath by distant growling carried on a dead autumns wind.The tracks are also often underplayed by subtle and grim dark ambient/drone touches. From the outset and vocal-less introduction Misthymn, we are led into a strange in-between world of barren black castles turrets against bone white skies, twisted and Sharpe forest that hover and crawl with strange deities and translucent spirit beings. This is the soundtrack for a world out of time, a slow decaying shell of forgotten mildew legends, rusting armour and corroding finery. Where mist engulfed shadowy fields, lead to dense unforgiving woodland and broken down villages and cites where rotting skeletons still sit in vine and lichen crawled thrones, their eyeless skull staring out to their once great lands. Underneath the atmosphere there are well written, memorable and often fairly complex haunted melodies.Really if one added distortion and drums you’d have fine black metal fair. A grim treat for both barren folk fans & black metal lovers who need a little eerier soothing, or anyone else who enjoys bleak and atmospheric music. To find out more & buy direct go here.    Roger Batty
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