THE BEAST

Don’t let the album cover depicting a windswept field lull you into thinking this is some typically pastoral atmospheric black metal album. Wiegedood has that arrow in its quiver, but the full experience of De Doden Hebben Het Goed II is far more than that. The band shares two members with Oathbreaker and one with Amenra, and that should give fans of those bands a pretty good idea of De Doden’s preferred ratio of pretty parts to ugly parts. Records this aggressive rarely pop up adjacent to the atmospheric black metal genre. For those who have grown weary of that scene, consider Wiegedood a much-needed shot of adrenaline