Sun Worship

***These Berlin locals are a unique band. They don’t really care about any sort of black metal ‘scene’ or rules, they say their music is more “influenced by” black metal as opposed to actually being it, they have absolutely zero pretensions and totally just do their thing based on a genuine love of the roots of the genre filtered through their own idiosyncratic and definitely modernised lens. Their compositions are subversively extraordinary, muscular yet refined; trancelike, with relentless undulating riffs and blistering percussive force. They don’t claim to be original, but their work is most definitely recognizable as their own. Last album Pale Dawn was (much like its predecessor Elder Giants) a near flawless display of energy and class. Emanations… traverses similar paths with the same skill, but where that energy took on a celestial feel at times on Pale Dawn, Emanations… resonates from a more earthy plane."—Black Metal Daily