Today
I’ll
leave
you
with
some
black
metal
from
my
home
country
Portugal.
Black
Howling
could
be
generally
described
as
the
Portuguese
correspondent
to
Hypothermia
(in
fact,
they’ve
released
a
split
with
the
latter
some
years
ago).
I
find
them
to
be
quite
good,
the
only
reproachable
thing
is,
in
my
opinion,
the
“national-romanticist”
lyrical
approach
they
have
embarked
upon
in
the
last
two
full
lengths
(Melancholy
of
a
Pagan
Bucolic
Spirit
and
This
Rain
Is
the
Weeping
of
Forefathers),
to
the
detriment
of
the
introspective
thematic
present
in
their
one-track
album
Alma…Uma
Floresta
de
Dor
(2007), which
I
share
below.
Even
though
I’m
nonetheless quite
fond
of
the
last
albums,
I’m
of
the
opinion
that
the
“national-pagan-nostalgic”
themes
they
imprint
on
their
lyrics
come
into
clear
contradiction
with
the
individual-oriented
depressive
tone
the
music
conveys.
I
think
that
bands
of
this
specific
subgenre
of
black
metal
should
either
embrace
modernity
and
the
socially
atomized
egotistical
urban
decay
that
comes
along
with
it
or,
in
case
they
still
prefer
to
heed
the
call
from
the
past,
they
should
follow
the
example
of
the
Portuguese
doom/black
metal
entity
Defuntos,
who
recall
the
austere
and
bitter
human
existence
of
yesteryears
in
rural
Portugal,
devoid
of
any
embellishments
or
nationalistic
idealizations.
In
any
case,
Black
Howling’s
second
full
length
Alma…Uma
Floresta
de
Dor
came
out
before
that
phase
and
it
is
my
personal
favourite
from
this
duet,
so
I
hope
you
unjoy
it
as
much
as
I
do.
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