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If I express my opinion on this song uncensored, I'd have to ban myself afterwards.

So here is the censored version: A lot more proggy and as experimental as you expect the band to be, very little black metal, great synths, awesome lead melodies, after the first couple of minutes the song takes off and never touches the ground again. It rips and it slays and I cannot ^%£$"^ wait for this album.

Written by nikarg on 20.04.2020 at 21:55

It rips and it slays and I cannot ^%£$"^ wait for this album.

I agree it's so fucking good

Actually like the clean vocals

Are they opething themselves away?

Written by Evil Cooper on 20.04.2020 at 23:14

Are they opething themselves away?

Unfair comparison tbh, HSN were never really that grounded in black metal to begin with. Even Pneuma has like a 70/30 prog to BM ratio. They've always been more "blackened prog metal" than "progressive black metal"

Written by Evil Cooper on 20.04.2020 at 23:14

Are they opething themselves away?

Also this is way better than any new age Opeth

Imo it's to coherent and un original, their signature is saying WTF did I just listened ? This is too normal in other words but will still look forward to their new release

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Unfair comparison tbh, HSN were never really that grounded in black metal to begin with. Even Pneuma has like a 70/30 prog to BM ratio. They've always been more "blackened prog metal" than "progressive black metal"

Well, I'm not completely agree about the 70/30 ratio, but in any case in this song - and I hope the album will be a different story - the BM part is 0% and I think this is a problem. I mean, I love HSN because of the perfectly balanced mix between BM and other things, and here we have nothing of this.

Written by Adrián Av36 on 21.04.2020 at 04:23

Imo it's to coherent and un original, their signature is saying WTF did I just listened ? This is too normal in other words but will still look forward to their new release

Half their discography is like this... This is like the title track of the last album in terms of what you're saying.

This is evolution. It doesn't matter how much I love this band, I still don't want them to do Pneuma over and over again because we already have Pneuma. They said that in the new album they will move their sound more towards the 80's, implementing synthwave in their music which you also can hear in this song (starting at 1.05). For me who grew up in the 80's this is a really interesting path they're taking because except all kind of metal, synthwave is what I listen to. So for me this is a really great track even though it's lacking the BM because it still sounds very much like Hail Spirit Noir.

What a banger! Completely stoked to hear the rest of the album now, June can't come soon enough. A nice change from Mayhem, I loved that album and I hope I hear something that tops Lost in Satan's Charms.

"They've already released an album in that style, so they should move on". I don't think a band can explore everything from a certain genre with only one album and it's highly unlikely that people complaining about change want just a half-assed copy of the albums they love. What about the thousands of metal albums after "Black Sabbath"? Are all of them redundant? Other bands decided to explore on that genre and we know what happened.

This has nothing to do with this single (which I liked) or even Hail Spirit Noir. I'm just talking about this line of thought.

Written by IBlackened on 22.04.2020 at 02:28

What about the thousands of metal albums after "Black Sabbath"? Are all of them redundant?

Well tbh a lot of the Black Sabbath clones kind of are just more of the same and I think Stoner and Trad doom might be one of the least evolving subgenres of metal. Of course "more of the same" is still good. I wouldn't mind it with HSN either, Mayhem in Blue was phenomenal and my favourite album of that year. So the more whacky, proggy black metal is still something they could definitely do more stuff with. But rn I'm just hyped for this album based off of this single.

Written by Desha on 22.04.2020 at 11:17

Well tbh a lot of the Black Sabbath clones kind of are just more of the same and I think Stoner and Trad doom might be one of the least evolving subgenres of metal. Of course "more of the same" is still good. I wouldn't mind it with HSN either, Mayhem in Blue was phenomenal and my favourite album of that year. So the more whacky, proggy black metal is still something they could definitely do more stuff with. But rn I'm just hyped for this album based off of this single.

I'm not saying bands shouldn't change, just that I don't think they need to change just for the sake of it. I don't know why, but I forgot to mention bands that explore their own sound, like BaN and the MV series or Bolt Thrower and Dark Tranquility, who are praised for releasing good albums while keeping their sound. Those examples fit a lot more into this discussion.

Written by IBlackened on 23.04.2020 at 04:01

who are praised for releasing good albums while keeping their sound.

Well half the fanbase hates the MV albums, cause they sound so similar and the sound didn't change up that much haha. And I think for HSN it came really organically.

Written by Desha on 23.04.2020 at 10:26

Well half the fanbase hates the MV albums, cause they sound so similar and the sound didn't change up that much haha. And I think for HSN it came really organically.

Really man? They must be a vocal minority, because on sites that have user ratings, like MA, RYM, Sputnik or even here, the 3 of them have pretty high ratings. But yes, HSN didn't even change that much. They still pretty much have their own instantly recognizable style. They're one of my favorite bands.