GRAVELAND Will Stronger Than Death CD (2007)

Rob Darken has spent decades doing exactly what he wants, and the underground has been better for it. Will Stronger Than Death is Graveland at peak conviction, blending raw black metal spite with sprawling Viking atmosphere and ambient passages that feel less like interludes and more like ritual.

Released in 2007 and packaged in an A5 digipak, this is the kind of record that rewards the patient listener, the one who sticks around past the blast beats for the long, cold stretches of synth and folk melody underneath. Graveland sits in a specific lineage of Eastern European black metal that never courted mainstream approval and never needed to. Darken's nationalism has always been controversial within the scene, and that context is part of the record's history. You know what you're getting.

CD in A5 digipak format. Full length studio album. Origin: Poland, 2007. Genre: black metal, Viking metal, ambient metal.

Fans of: Ildjarn, Black Funeral, Taake, Burzum, Nokturnal Mortum.