Chapter 7 : Windir to the Rescue!

REDEFINING EVIL:  A JOURNEY INTO THE CREATION OF BOSTON BASED BLACK METAL SOLO ARTIST "RANCID ABOMINATION"

Author : Black Plague (The Founder of Rancid Abomination)

 So I was sitting listening to Ensiferum like crazy for years on end. Korpiklaani, Wintersun, Norther, etc... This was in August last year... By this point Caustic Euphony had broken up and so did Unleashing Vengeance and I had no music I was writing at all. I ditched it all. I had a solo artist that only did Instrumentals. That is for the next chapter. But my musical tastes were begging me to get into more bands... More Folk Metal bands. Now keep in mind I was LOVING Folk Metal then and wanted to hear more. So I did a search for a band that Ensiferum was influenced by called Amorphis. I had heard them a long time ago and forgot about them. I also called them Doom Metal but To me now they are folk metal. I liked them a lot so I was looking into info about them on google when I came to a site that listed a poll where people were voting for the most underrated folk metal band ever... Guess what band they listed....

Windir

Well I wasn't expecting Windir to be the best damn black metal band I would ever hear when I listened to them on spotify soon after. And I thought they were folk metal for a while... But when a book I read talked about how the bassist hated folk metal I knew I had gotten back into Black Metal. But this time I would not leave... In fact this time I would completely ditch Folk metal for Fucking Black Metal. Something about Windir made me a huge fan of them. It was the dark, unhappy, sinister but sometimes haunting sound they had, the great great solos and the amazing melodies and clean vocals. I loved it. In fact if there was one band that I would like to come back again it would be Windir because they became my favorite band to listen to. They got me back into Black metal. Now their founder, Valfar is long dead and the band is gone, everyone knows this, and it was tragic, but his music was ingenious...

Soon after that I got into more folk metal and Black Metal bands a lot that made poor Ensiferum look like complete crap, including:

Mithotyn
Moonsorrow
Falkenbach
Wuthering Heights
Thyrfing
Summoning
Mistur
Menhir
Gernotshagen
XIV Dark Centuries
Black Messiah
Myrkgrav
Cor Scorpii
Vreid
Forefather
Primordial
Agalloch
Chthonic (Technically an Oriental Black Metal band - with an Asian style)
Demonic Resurrection
and last but not least..............

Melechesh....

Melechesh was a really interesting band to get into but they took forever for me to really like. I heard one song by them and sort of was like EH on internet radio... Later on I would try them in August 2016 and really didn't like their sound at all and ditched them for like 6 months.... But on my birthday in 2017 I bought a couple of their cd's and at first I wasn't crazy about them, but the rate they grew on me was ridiculous. I eventually listened to them 1000+ times in 4 months and it was insane. I listened to all their cd's on Spotify and especially loved Sphynx. 

Their style is very Middle Eastern sounding with a lot of tribal Drum beats being used and very exotic melodies all over the place. They also have insanely good guitar playing. Their guitarists are great. They are doing some amazing black metal.. I never expected to like a band from their part of the world (The Middle East) as I did...

I especially like the vocal style they have. Ashmedi is a very good growler, he has a really high sick sounding voice that sounds scary... His vocal style inspired mine a bit in 2017.

But Windir was way more important to me, in a way. They got me back into Black Metal and because of that I could actually stomach old Rancid Abomination material I found in a backup... And that material made me want to reform Rancid Abomination... Which I did in 2016....