LP Review: "Stridshymner Og Dodssalmer" by Sjukdom

Stridshymner Og Dodssalmer

If you've ever wondered how albums are chosen for review, it's kind of like this. There are labels, bands, and PR Firms that have priority.

Typically it's because they've passed along great music in the past. One of those eye popping labels is the venerated Osmose Productions from France.

So, they're getting ready to release Sjukdom's latest album, Stridshymner Og Dodssalmer.

Because of they are and what they've done, I've come to expect a high standard of them and their artists. Seven years after their formation, Sjukdom is releasing their debut record.

It starts off with a comforting water fall of traditional black metal. For the most part, that's what this album is, traditional black metal. Or at least, what I think of as such, but the thing that makes this record great isn't its strict adherence to a heavy metal subgenre.

The willingness of the band to leave the oft-tread path to create a black metal song all in their own style with, shall we call it, bits of flair to liven up the old girl as it were. The one thing about this album though, as it's wholly in Swedish, who knows if the vocals are intelligible!

Release: 10/26/18 PreOrder Facebook