If you visit a restaurant a number of times and you always find the same menu card, you will finally give up on them. And you’ll end up looking for places, where the food is equally good (or better), but the variation more stringent. The same goes with some of the metal genres that are out there.
Black Metal especially positively screams for some rejuvenating relief and some fresh pathways to travel. Too many bands are just holed up in their caves, drumming and rasping away – come hell (no pun intended…) or high water – in the same drowsy fashion they always did.
Now, luckily we have gigs like the Polish Neoheresy who try that different, but decidedly more thorny route to a new metal nirvana.… Got hooked? Raid this some more...
Weren’t we just about done with Black Metal for 2016? I mean, with all the good stuff that already came our way, there could not be more, right? 
Picture this: A kiwi band from Dunedin in New Zealand, now based in Scotland (of all places), sporting a Swedish frontman from Malmö. Meet Sojourner and their début full length album Empires of Ash. 
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