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Today, one-man atmospheric black metal/ambient project A Diadem Of Dead Stars released a special compilation, Emerald Sunsets, via III Damnation Productions on digipack CD, vinyl, and cassette tape formats.
Begun in 2014 and helmed by the prolific The Pilgrim - whose prior bands include the cult Hierophant's Descent and Angstridden, and currently, The Seal Of R'Lyeh and Barak Tor - Greece's A Diadem Of Dead Stars proudly plays "Misty Lowlands Black Metal". The debut full-length, The Mist Bearer, began the journey in 2014 and continued across a demo, two EPs, and then the second album, Kingdoms Bathed In Golden Light, in 2016. A recording hiatus ensued until that cursed year of 2020, but that curse proved fruitful for The Pilgrim: a single, a demo, and EP followed in quick succession.
And that's where we arrive with Emerald Sunsets. Totalling four tracks across 28 minutes, Emerald Sunsets includes all previously digital-only material from A Diadem Of Dead Stars. This collection sees The Pilgrim at his most invigorating and most nostalgic, immediately instilling a sense of loss or at least bittersweetness before building into cresting waves of moonlight mysticism and autumnal splendour - never categorically "negative" like most extant black metal, nor necessarily "hopeful" like much falling under the wider "post-" umbrella - with the upticks/downshifts of speed both fluid and flowing. Of course, the atmosphere is always crucial to the A Diadem Of Dead Stars experience, and you'll find a bounty of it here on Emerald Sunsets, verily evoking its title. In fact, the record ends on the especially evocative "Of Green Pastures", a beautifully haunting hymn of acoustic guitar and birdsong. The way this collection is threaded together makes it less of the standard odds-and-ends "collection" and one more suited to its own headspace and experience. A Diadem Of Dead Stars will guide you to Emerald Sunsets - embark below. Link
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