Recommendation: Cosmic Church

[Vittra]

Cosmic Church
Finland
Black Metal

I've been obsessed with this band ever since stumbling upon them a few years ago. Enthralling riffs, hypnotic atmosphere, plenty of tempo shifts between songs (and often within them)... superb BM. Cannot recommend enough.

Their songs tend to be long, but offer quite a bit of variation. None are quite alike.

Personal favourites:

The left is from the Arcana Dei II EP.
The right is a 21 min song from Blood Red Fog / Cosmic Church split



Various eps/demos:

 

[refraction]

Great stuff! It just snowed here for the first time yesterday and this fits perfectly.

 

[Reign in Acai]

This is massive. Going down on Jennifer Lawrence wouldn't be as enjoyable. Copies of this seem to be all sold out unfortunately, so expect to shell out a kopeck or three. Only released two months back as well.

 

[Vittra]

It's a fantastic release, but I feel it takes some time to really absorb compared to their previous works. This remains my favourite band of recent years.