Melodic black metal from the literal underground. Last time around, Valdrin bamboozled me with a sometimes challenging but overall pretty killer record. Upon revisiting it this week, the journey through the realm of Nex Animus, antagonist in the band’s own Ausadjur mythos, drew me right back in. For Effigy of Nightmares, we briefly return there as we follow “a nameless narrator through the halls of Hosptium Mortis, the nightmare hospital below the Orcus underworld itself, where Nex tortures and lobotomizes the dissident gods of his domain.” Fittingly, then, the album starts out with an intro track in which whispered vocals … Continue reading Review: Valdrin – Effigy of Nightmares