Vardan - Lifeless Shadow - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

2018 . Vardan remains at the forefront of the modern metal/rock/doom/atmospheric scene. Breaking expectations, bending boundaries, destroying the norm... treading new ground for the entire metal genre while forging a new path that is uniquely Vardan's. Vardan continues his ascension to the top of the metal scene with Unholy Lightless Summer, the staggering 31st full-length album in a 31+ year career and vast reservoir of ground-breaking music. More than a new album, Unholy Lightless Summer is the vision of the scene's most unique and prolific artist. His most ambitious, commercial, ambient and non-metal album to date, Unholy Lightless Summer has more in common with esoteric composers such as Ennio Morricone and Bernard Herrmann or contemporary dark-wave masters like Raison D 'Etre, Ordo Equilibrio, Current 93 and the Moon Lay Hidden than modern black metal. Overflowing with acoustic-electric guitars, vocal choirs and Gregorian chants, ethereal keyboards passages and predominantly clean vocals, Unholy Lightless Summer has a massive cross-over appeal to a wide and varied audience from darkwave, classical, neo-folk and free-form jazz to build upon his already substantial metal fan base.

Vardan - Between The Fog and Shadows [COMPACT DISCS] date 08/21/2015

Vardan, the busiest man in black metal, continues his dominance of the underground with 'Despicable Broken Hope'. Chronologically the 20th album in the one-man band's vast discography, Vardan's latest 'Despicable Broken Hope' sees the selfsame main man take his melancholic black metal art down more melodic roads. Mind you, the 'melody' across 'Despicable Broken Hope' is of a most miserable hue, each wracked note ringing out in the night like the sound of dying soul. Set at a mostly mid-tempo gait, here Vardan twists out the bittersweet beauty in each paean to pain, with those 'spaces between the notes' haunting the memory long after record's end. Face 'Despicable Broken Hope' and feel alive - and DEAD!