Weird. Lovely. Occasionally violent. “Weird” never has been and doubtless never will be a white-hot selling point for metal. That said, metal can be insanely boring, and it is often the weird ones who force the genre to evolve into something interesting again or, failing that, simply remind us that metal is indeed the product of evolution. Victory Over the Sun is of this ilk. It is a genre-blind project that takes black metal as its primary colors and then swiftly mixes in so many unorthodox shades that the final picture, at least from a distance, looks much more gray. … Continue reading Victory Over the Sun — A Tessitura of Transfiguration