Paysage d’Hiver Part 1
As regular readers of this blog already know, I’ve spent a good deal of this winter listening to atmospheric black metal, tracking down the most celebrated works within this often misunderstood genre. What attracted me to most of this music was its natural and frigid imagery, evoking vast mental landscapes like the ones in this video: snow covered pines, isolated hilltops, frozen streams and dark passageways. As Toronto has been hit repeatedly by massive snow storms, the bleak sounds of bands like Switzerland’s Paysage d’Hiver seem more than appropriate when trudging through the cold.
Since my one hundredth post is coming up, I’d thought I would do a post dedicated to the genre that has captivated my interests and captured my mood over this blog’s first three months. Stay tuned for a comprehensive list of the best black metal albums I’ve come across as well as some winter images I’ve taken myself (if I can find my damned USB chord).
In the meantime, enjoy the video.
March 7th, 2008 at 3:08 pm
Hey! Congrats on being the next guest blogger at CopyBlogger! That’s really great news, and HUGE!
Give yourself a pat on the back, you deserve it!
-Tiffany
March 7th, 2008 at 4:22 pm
Thanks a lot Tiffany, it’ll be interesting to see what happens next week. I’m curious to see how many CopyBlogger readers would listen to the type of music featured on this blog as well. Anyways, I hope my post there will be helpful for some people, I printed it out and its posted on my cubicle wall at work as a constant reminder, lol. I’ll have the link and everything as soon as the guys over there post my article.