Borknagar - Origins Review

The black metal band Borknagar's latest release is an acoustic album, but it's hard to sound evil and menancing when there's a bamboo flute playing in the background.

Origin is very mellow and folky sounding with a lot of strings, acoustic guitars and the aforementioned bamboo flute. It's an interesting departure from the band's usual symphonic style, and it works. It's difficult to believe, but a black metal band has created something that sounds pretty instead of dark and forbidding. The songs are definitely not black metal, they are a combination of folk, classical and new age music.

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(CD cover courtesy Century Media Records)