Peordh - Glaring From Spacious Woods and Mountains of Eternal Frost (2007)

Other than the recently released demo compilation, ‘Glaring From Spacious Woods and Mountains of Eternal Frost’ is the sophomore release and most recent work from the one man Virginia USA based band known as Peordh. Similarly to 2006’s, ‘An Obscure Forgotten Path’ Peordh once again offers up highly Pagan themed black metal that’s not exactly like any other out there.

As usual with Peordh the songs are long and typically it takes time for them to develop and may even require a few spins before the album really makes sense. Fortunately everything seems to be highly epic and atmospheric in character and some acoustic guitars, flutes and nature sounds can be found within this lengthy seventy four minute album. Although the guitar work is generally more on the drony side of things it is still fairly well performed and should leave most satisfied and hold their interest. One thing that I still feel needs improvement is the vocals, which have some odd effect placed on them, and it just sounds off and distorted to my ears, but perhaps you’ll think differently.

Another thing to point out is that the music actually has somewhat of a progressive character to it since things are always changing and there are moments when the black metal disappears completely in favor of a more ambient moment or some odd folky sections. The last two songs on the album are also in more or less an ambient like vein and together they add almost thirty minutes to this album, but fortunately they are quite well done.

All in all this is a fairly good recording from Peordh, though it seems like some ideas within our still in their development stages and could fully mature by the next release, which I do hope is in on it's way.