Kontinuum - Earth Blood Magic
It isn’t everyday that I get to hear a band from Iceland. It’s even rarer to hear a band like Kontinuum. Metal-archives.com has this group tagged as being Progressive Post-Black Metal, but as far as I’m concerned, Progressive Black Metal and Post-Black Metal are essentially the same thing. Let’s just say that they aren’t your typical Black Metal band. You can clearly tell that there is some Black and Viking/Folk Metal influence in Kontinuum’s music. It may not have the same feeling or aggression as Black or Viking/Folk Metal, but you can see the lineage. Earth Blood Magic is mostly straight-forward Metal without much of the weirdness that I usually associate with Progressive music. The song structures aren’t overly complicated, and for the most part, everything works. There are a couple tracks, “Red” being one of them, where things don’t go as well as they should. The best stuff comes early on, with the first half of the album being far more interesting than the second. The second half of Earth Blood Magic is slower and less Metal. The arrangements are more Classical and they don’t work as well. Being that this is the band’s debut album, I’m going to cut them some slack. The ideas they have are pretty ambitious. I’ll give them credit for trying and being different but still, this is a hit-or-miss affair.
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