LUNAR AURORA Andacht (2007) CD

German black metal operates in its own pressurised atmosphere, and Lunar Aurora were among the few doing it with genuine compositional ambition before they quietly dissolved. Andacht, released in 2007, is the record that sits at the peak of their catalogue, cold, hypnotic, and built on layers that reward patience in the way that the best atmospheric black metal always does.

If Blut Aus Nord taught you that black metal could feel genuinely alien, and Drudkh showed you it could feel ancient, Lunar Aurora found a third path, something more interior, more unsettling. Andacht is the kind of record that gets compared to a handful of genre touchstones and then immediately distinguished from all of them. A full album of dark aesthetic depth from a band who never quite got the recognition they deserved while they were active.

Full length album, CD format. Country of origin: Germany. Genre: atmospheric black metal.

Fans of: BLUT AUS NORD, LEVIATHAN, DRUDKH, IMPERIUM DEKADENZ, DARKSPACE