Fanisk – Noontide (2003)

April 22, 2023

This came highly recommended, although I must say I was very sketched out by the cover drawing. Like, not only is it beyond sketchy (lol) but it is also absolutely awful – not really selling this music to me at all in any way shape or form.

I was perhaps slow to warm to Fanisk for these reasons but Noontide is a slow burn; the intro taking it’s sweet time to load you into the main program of mystical black metal. Various styles and moods are folded together, forging a new and unique vision on black metal. The production is a little thin but this can be easily overlooked.

Yeah, this is pretty solid, but that cover art is fucking atrocious.