Deeper Than Sky

Featuring members of Hammers of Misfortune, YOB, and Agalloch, VHÖL are the ideal modern metal band, fusing battle-tested stylistic forms with impressive arrangements and a progressive fire that traditionalists and revivalists can't match. On their second album, the cerebral and the primal stomp heads next to one another.

Featuring members of Hammers of Misfortune, YOB, and Agalloch, VHÖL are the ideal modern metal band, fusing battle-tested stylistic forms with impressive arrangements and a progressive fire that traditionalists and revivalists can't match. On their second album, the cerebral and the primal stomp heads next to one another.

Individually and within their other projects (the members of Vhöl hail impressively from YOB, Hammers of Misfortune and Agalloch), every mem...

Individually and within their other projects (the members of Vhöl hail impressively from YOB, Hammers of Misfortune and Agalloch), every mem...

Full disclosure here: I don’t really like thrash all that much. I like it mixed with other things, like black metal for instance, but I’ve always found it to be a style of riffing best enjoyed in moderation. As a skeletal bedroom-dwelling troll, I’ve always connected more with metal’s more brooding styles—castles, cosmos, and such—rather than the youthful rambunctiousness of pure thrash.

Full disclosure here: I don’t really like thrash all that much. I like it mixed with other things, like black metal for instance, but I’ve always found it to be a style of riffing best enjoyed in moderation. As a skeletal bedroom-dwelling troll, I’ve always connected more with metal’s more brooding styles—castles, cosmos, and such—rather than the youthful rambunctiousness of pure thrash.

A review of Deeper Than Sky by Vhöl, available October 23rd on Profound Lore Records.

A review of Deeper Than Sky by Vhöl, available October 23rd on Profound Lore Records.