Artist Info: Estuary Blacks

Estuary may have only been released just a day shy of a year after Beorn’s Hall’s first album, Mountains Hymn, but it proves to be a broad expansion of the band’s pagan metal formula. The black/folk metal style remains dominant, but the lengths are noticeably longer. The songs are largely driven by cavernous riffs and distant growls that are occasionally coopted by Summoning-style keyboards and extended acoustic segments, but they get more room to explore. [read more...]