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« on: February 08, 2021, 05:20:11 PM »
So, Null showed up in my Release Radar on Spotify this week. They were towards the end of the playlist and I almost stopped before I got to them. I was about to click out when I thought..what the hell, give it a shot.


WOW! I'm glad I did. Holy shit, this is a great new album.



https://open.spotify.com/album/5mriDeZzkJxUopiumw4hTC?si=RfgG7PxgTU6v4bEPf5zA0Q
https://nullblackmetal.bandcamp.com/album/hiraeth


Hiraeth is a DOUBLE CD, as is their debut, 2019's Lore Of A Sleeping Forest.


I've been listening to Hiraeth for a couple of days now, and I'm amazed. Their sound is atmospheric, reflective, a little folky, black metal vocals (some cleans) that I can handle, and great compositions. The band gets nice and heavy too.

I don't know anything about them, but I ordered both double CDs from Bandcamp. I would've purchased the downloads but each CD comes with a booklet and I am interested in that.





Here's the title track:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6WMMljRNZs

A great track..Discovery:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoC9lNFLn5g
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« Reply #1 on: February 08, 2021, 07:29:44 PM »
Sounds good dude. I've added the new album to my '2021 releases' playlist  :metal

I'll hopefully report back before the day is through.

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« Reply #2 on: February 08, 2021, 09:40:33 PM »
I still need to get to this album. I've listened to Lore of a Sleeping Forest and thought it was good. Hoping this one is just as good, if not better.  :metal
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« Reply #3 on: February 10, 2021, 10:52:16 PM »
I listened to the first song. It is excellent musically, but shame about the growly vocals. I will check out more by them when I have the chance.

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« Reply #4 on: February 11, 2021, 03:45:01 AM »
I sampled the first album when you pimped it Tim.  It sounded good, I'll have to make some time to check them out again.
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« Reply #5 on: February 11, 2021, 04:28:23 AM »
Please tell me I'm not the only one who thought this was a thread made my mistake and with the word "null" meaning it should be deleted   :lol
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« Reply #6 on: February 11, 2021, 05:11:13 AM »
This album is pretty good so far (I'm about 2/3rds of the way through) but I'm not sure how often I'd revisit this album, being that it's nearly 2 hours long!

I like to listen to albums all the way through the majority of the time, and this is quite an undertaking.

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« Reply #7 on: February 11, 2021, 07:07:55 PM »
Please tell me I'm not the only one who thought this was a thread made my mistake and with the word "null" meaning it should be deleted   :lol

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This album is pretty good so far (I'm about 2/3rds of the way through) but I'm not sure how often I'd revisit this album, being that it's nearly 2 hours long!

I like to listen to albums all the way through the majority of the time, and this is quite an undertaking.

Yeah, there's a lot to chew on.
would have thought the same thing but seeing the OP was TAC i immediately thought Maiden or DT related
Winger Theater Forums........or WTF.  ;D
TAC got a higher score than me in the electronic round? Honestly, can I just drop out now? :lol

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« Reply #8 on: February 12, 2021, 07:31:42 PM »
Got my CDs today!! :metal :metal
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« Reply #9 on: March 08, 2021, 06:38:37 AM »
Listening now and I have to say, while I wasn't sure I'd appreciate how long the album is, it really is some fantastic, extremely melodic folk/black(ish) metal and there's enough variety of sounds and ideas to keep it interesting.

I'll give their first album a listen at some point too.

Thanks for the recommendation Tim!

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« Reply #10 on: March 08, 2021, 07:41:58 AM »
So, Null showed up in my Release Radar on Spotify this week. They were towards the end of the playlist and I almost stopped before I got to them. I was about to click out when I thought..what the hell, give it a shot.


WOW! I'm glad I did. Holy shit, this is a great new album.




Yet another almost illegible logo!  :) :)

I LOVED the intro to Hiraeth, and when the main riff came in at about 1:15, I was like "yeah, TAC!"    Then the vocals came in.  Nope.  Just can't do it. 

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« Reply #11 on: March 08, 2021, 11:06:50 AM »
I'm guessing it's gonna be a hard pass for me.  Considering the members that are pimping it, and Stads hates it.

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« Reply #12 on: March 08, 2021, 11:12:28 AM »
So, Null showed up in my Release Radar on Spotify this week. They were towards the end of the playlist and I almost stopped before I got to them. I was about to click out when I thought..what the hell, give it a shot.


WOW! I'm glad I did. Holy shit, this is a great new album.




Yet another almost illegible logo!  :) :)

I LOVED the intro to Hiraeth, and when the main riff came in at about 1:15, I was like "yeah, TAC!"    Then the vocals came in.  Nope.  Just can't do it.


Same.  Hard pass.


I wasn't gonna even commend but goddam what the fuck is wrong with these people who are designing these logos?  That has got to be the worst one yet.  I would NEVER have gotten "Null" from that logo.  Not in a million years.   :facepalm:

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« Reply #13 on: March 08, 2021, 11:31:20 AM »
That logo is super legible for black metal standards. Same for that Awaken band in the other thread (might not be black metal, but whatever). You sweet summer children.
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« Reply #14 on: March 08, 2021, 12:00:40 PM »
That logo is super legible for black metal standards. Same for that Awaken band in the other thread (might not be black metal, but whatever). You sweet summer children.

Yeah, no problem with the Awaken / Iotunn / Null logos whatsoever here. I do have a problem with the "Hiraeth" font/color though, it looks like they opened the cover via Paint, picked a random font and typed the album name in.

I need to listen to this I guess.
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« Reply #15 on: September 22, 2022, 07:26:58 PM »
So Null dropped their new album today..



https://open.spotify.com/album/5QvT8SfEf6KYGoRN1iodg0?si=DrVcEIKhQmq5mJxiwsNtZQ


This one is ONLY 78 minutes.  :lol


I really like the song Ancient Memories.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UOppMCnk4A
would have thought the same thing but seeing the OP was TAC i immediately thought Maiden or DT related
Winger Theater Forums........or WTF.  ;D
TAC got a higher score than me in the electronic round? Honestly, can I just drop out now? :lol

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« Reply #16 on: September 23, 2022, 01:29:59 PM »
On my second listen and it's sounding really top-notch!

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« Reply #17 on: September 23, 2022, 06:35:12 PM »
I'll make some time to check this out.  I didn't go back to the last album to be honest but I'm a little more into this style these days.
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« Reply #18 on: September 23, 2022, 07:16:40 PM »
Just hit the song I linked. It's only 11 minutes. ;D
would have thought the same thing but seeing the OP was TAC i immediately thought Maiden or DT related
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« Reply #19 on: September 24, 2022, 06:32:55 AM »
Fucking outstanding vocals.
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