Nowa EP-ka SPIDER GOD już dostępna

 

Deeply inspired by late Swedish auteur Ingmar Bergman, UK-based solo project Spider God are one of the most interesting victims of the pandemic-borne black metal wave.

Whoever they are, it must be admitted, Spider God’s black metal is the work of an outsider. Admittedly, they have “dabbled” in black metal before, but Spider God represents their first true go at black metal. Over the course of a demo—which today’s premiere is the thematic sequel to—, and three splits, Spider God have proven that their presence is not only accepted in the black metal underground, but increasingly vital.

You see, Spider God are ridiculously sick. Combining that raw medieval French style plus whatever tangent the song calls for, whether it’s post-punk, British heavy metal or something even weirder, combining all of that with sheer skill, actual proficiency at the guitar and recording and (probably) drum programming, and the result simply speaks for itself. With enough riffs to take down every tryhard’s obsessively accurate paint-by-numbers raw black metal band, Spider God prolificacy reminds us that the subgenre’s pioneers were also fans of other music, also mere dabblers at first.

Accordingly, we’re honored that this outsider who is probably some old black metal soul, has returned to stream their new EP, Shadowless Light. The six tracks that compose Shadowless Light, the artist behind Spider God told us, are part of the same recording session as the first EP. They wrote to inform us that: “The first two EPs were recorded over a two-week period, and the music predates the split with Mnima, the split with Altered Heresy and the four-way split with The Sun’s Journey Through the Night, Revenant Marquis and The Oracle.