Ophiuchi – ‘Shibboleth’ [Album Review]
A few years ago, I had the distinct pleasure of reviewing the debut album from a solo black metal project named Ophiuchi, Bifurcaria Bifurcata. The depth of feeling and profundity of the music left me reeling, likening the album to a modern-day black metal Pink Floyd in my praise, and the flabbering my ghast suffered was only made more complete upon realizing the author of the work was from the same dusty South African hometown as myself, Pretoria. Fast forward, and the same skilled songwriter contacts me to see if I would be interested in interrogating his latest record, Shibboleth. I leap at the chance, obviously, but am soon reeling once more as another odd coincidence leaps up – the musician left those same dusty African shores for the growing hub of Utrecht in the Netherlands at almos...
