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Oscenrad - Beyond The Fells - Reviewed By Metal Digest ! Check it out here at this link: https://metal-digest.com/2022/04/07/oscenrad-beneath-the-fells/

Gallivanting through the mist of the North Sea, Oscenrad brings to light their debut LP ‘Beneath the Fells’. Sporting a modern viking/norse metal album sure to send you on a longboat to the Christian lands.

Ironically composed by self proclaimed Anglo Saxon Hæoenwulf in East Anglia, ‘Beyond the Fells’ paints a gallant mental image of exploration, might, valor and courage. The perfect album to charge into battle with. Its melodic consonance gives it an epic feel, as fiery as a blacksmith’s forge, and as deadly as Odin’s wrath.

Musically, ‘Beyond the Fells’ is expertly crafted, engaging in a variety of textures and sounds. Orchestral intros, synthesised layers and acoustic passages break up an endless torrent of battering drums, audible, punchy bass and a guitar tone that wouldn’t be out of place on a Moonsorrow album. The vocals are mainly low false cord grunts, it could be argued however, that this is all is needed to create the Viking feel.

It’s clear that Oscenrad have unearthed their love of the past and woven it into this album, enchanted with mystery and heroics. Easily comparable to atmospheric black metal in some regards, ‘Beyond the Fells’ sticks well to its genre, but also contains those ambient sections to break away from the hammering ferocity of the heavier sections. - Metal Digest

Release Date: May 28th 2021

FFO: Bathory, Moonsorrow, Thyrfing

Location: England

Oscenrad - Anglo Saxon Heathen Metal from the depths of East Anglia

Founded in 2017 as the solo project of frontman Hæðenwulf, Oscenrad seeks to awaken something deep and primal within the listener; to harken back to the Old Gods of Heathen lore, to ancestral roots and to the mythologies and folklore of times gone by with a primary lyrical focus on Anglo-Saxon England and North Western Europe in the pre-Christian age.

The debut album Beyond the Fells consists of 6 tracks making up a total of 54 minutes of Anglo-Saxon Heathen Metal in the vein of Bathory's Viking Metal era (mainly Hammerheart, Twilight of the Gods and the two Nordland albums) with a mix of various influences from artists such as Moonsorrow, Thyrfing and Månegarm as well as traditional European folk music and classical music

Beyond the Fells aims to immerse the listener completely, from start to finish, transporting them to a time of myth and magic, swords and spears, old, ruined castles and forbidden forests.

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