Adorn by Adorn

For fans of Sigur Ros, Agriculture, Mogwai, romantic-era symphonies, and the counterintuitive connection between black metal and classical music, Adorn by Adorn relishes in the pomp and circumstance of Victorian age courtship through a style which overtly combines neoclassical sounds with extreme metal. As Adorn turns through the pages of literature, diaries, and most other sources from the aptly-named romantic era, they find a level of painfully passionate love which feels lost today, employing their brand of aggressively sentimental, emotionally enormous music to rekindle that forgotten devotion. Our jaded modern ears may immediately take this record’s distorted tremolo evolution of the romantic symphony as something steeped in irony, an aesthetic glorifying the heights of early modern passion while ignoring the dangers of the age which fueled that emotional fire. However, as the nations of the world today stampede towards disastrous dysfunction or outright institutional abuse, we once again experience romance in a world designed to rip us to shreds, rekindling that romantic flame and giving us a reason to genuinely revisit these time-tested forms.