It’s been only two years, but it feels even longer since I delved into Colorado-based black metal outfit Wayfarer’s World’s Blood album (read our review here); and the standout from the last record is still as strongly represented as ever on their latest, A Romance With Violence. I refer, of course, to the evocative nature of this band’s music and its ability to conjure the sprawling, dusty and dangerous memories that are littered throughout Americana. Sure, there may be some clichés thrown in that mix – such as the stretched-tape, vinyl dust introducing “The Curtain Pulls Back” – but overall, the feelings of isolation, abandonment and downright insignificance in the face of nature that have typified their back catalogue is still one hundred percent intact. What they do introduce, however,...
