Third album for Wode.
Created in 2010 in England, M.C. (guitar/vocals, Aggressive Perfector), T.H. (drums/vocals, Aggressive Perfector, Under the Horns), E.T. (bass, NASDAQ) and D. Shaw (guitar, Aggressive Perfector, Under the Horns) offer us today Burn In Many Mirrors.
Into the band’s Black Metal, there are many clashing influences. Some swedish melodic roots, fast Heavy influences, american Black tones, but above all those visceral sonorities we can feel since Lunar Madness, a mystical and seizing track. Some modern effects slip into dissonant riffs and howlings, but the band’s basis is still centered on Old School riffs, as it is for the aggressive and catchy Serpent’s Coil. Heady leads prevail over the groovy rhythmic, offering an accessible but very dark universe, to which every kind of sharp part is grafted. Fire in the Hills offers very airy tones, but also very deep, that easily remind us the swedish scene and its beginning, then the rhythmic bursts into fire, allowing quite no respite before the fast Sulphuric Glow. Raging riffs call for this unholy violence the musicians permanently develop, but also an abrasive melodicity. The tempo will slow down a bit at the end before exploding again, then Vanish Beneath is next. Airy tones, unhealthy dissonance, ghostly blackness and however it is still a quite aggressive spirit that comes to this soaring melting before Streams Of Rapture (I, II, III). The song obviously has to be listened as a single one, offering turn by turn hovering, oppressive, melodic but sharp parts, reminding some solid Thrash Metal, then unholy and heady sounds close the song and the album.
Wode knew to pick the best influences for its Melodic Black Metal. Burn In Many Mirrors offers different but complementary aspects, that are all placing themselves at the service of the sharp fog the band develops.
80/100