Album review: Wode – Burn In Many Mirrors

Wode are not fucking around on album number three. Across six tracks and nearly 40 minutes of infernal sound, we get the frostbitten bite of black metal, the bloody relentlessness of thrash, and the ravaged melody of Scandinavian death. Never once is there the sense of stylistic compromise, though, nor a hint of letting-up.  Where, on one level the unsettlingly baroque artwork – featuring a disembodied backbone surrounded by a host of haloed saints and decapitated sinners – could be a surrealist rumination on the wages of sin, on another, it could be a stark warning to listener. Sink too deep into the Manchester terrors’ sonic darkness, and there’s a legitimate danger you might bang your head off its spine.  From the moment Lunar Madne...

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