OBSCURANT VISIONS

Brilliant, shining new full-length by Autumn Strife, following up to the project's killer full-length last year.

From the golden praries under an eternal, starry firmament of the Midwest, Autumn Strife rises once again, to convey its odes of blitzkrieg triumphalism and stoic militancy. Wielding its melodies like an axe against opposition, or like a saccharine libation to the old gods and to blood and kin, the project unleashes its serpentine, weaving melodies, brimming with old rock and roll energy and irreverence, with a lot of hammer-ons and pull-off intertwining in a dance of purity and victory.

Following along the lines of projects like Totale Vernichtung, Eisenwinter, Lascowiec, Grizelda, Eye of Shepherdess, "Prosperity" is again warm and enriching, an embrace of identity and strife.