The third album from this band from Norway.
The band was a quintet with a lineup of drums, bass, guitars, synths and vocals.
Borknagar is a band who has often been compared to Enslaved. But Enslaved was never black metal while Borknagar started out as a black metal band.
Epic black metal band, that is. There is a big world in distance between early Borknagar and the likes of Mayhem and Darkthrone.
The band was more in transition on their previous album, the 1997 album The Olden Domain. See my review somewhere else in this blog.
On The Archaic Course, the band has moved towards progressive rock. The band still does epic black metal here. But with a progressive rock twist.
Some of the vocals here is both clear and good. There is still some harsh black metal vocals here.
The music on this forty minutes long album is pretty good at places. It is so far their best and this album created quite a bit of a sensation when it was released.
This album is somewhere between decent and good. It is an album well worth checking out.
2.5 points
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