If you were to say to me, "The world is ending. We need you to choose a black metal horde. We are going to put several recent albums by that horde on a golden LP and shoot it off into space, so that extra terrestrial life forms may one day know what heights the dark art of black metal had reached by 2017." I would choose this record. Bestial Arcana is part of a horde - by that I mean it shares members with - that includes Nightbringer and Akhlys. Those three bands really represent a vanguard of black metal today, if you ask me. I would say they are to black metal what Portal, Impetuous Ritual and Grave Upheaval are to death metal. A most important unholy trinity. Atmospheric. Devotional. Dyed in the wool evil.
_Alibi
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