Black metal is at its best when it looks away from the mirror. Far too many bands keep their eyes on the rearview—Slovenia’s Snøgg, meanwhile, has left the road and is doing donuts in the median. The band describes themselves as “freeride black metal.” By this, they seem to mean they operate unconstrained by genre and even artform, borrowing from millennia of human weirdness to create black metal by turns cosmic and folkloric. On past records, Snøgg dipped into topics ranging from Greenlandic mythology to Mayan lore. Their single-song new album Dan, ko je Vrag vzel šalo (The Day the Devil … Continue reading Album Premiere: Snøgg – Dan, ko je Vrag vzel šalo