The Ripple Effect: The Music Commentary Radio Show  

In past reviews of Norwegian black metal albums, I’ve painted stark pictures of bitter winter landscapes as I’ve interpreted the music set before me. Frigid forested mountains caked with snow and ice, windswept hills and lands barren of most human life. The black metal mavens of Norway always seem to capture these environments better than most, creating this amazing imagery of desolation and want, which makes me think that their approach to the music is more than to follow the deer trails of those who came before them and more a lifestyle of shunning human existence. Steeped in the essence of the northern lands, multi-instrumentalist Sarke creates an overwhelming wave of earthy groove metal that mixes seamlessly with mesmerizing atmospheric passages, and vocalist Nocturno Culto (Darkthrone) adds the venom needed to propel this album into the ether. Vorunah is a spectacle to set your ears upon. Rabid. Monstrous. At times, over powering and almighty, other times, majestic and sprawling. Ultimately addictive in its simplicity, Vorunah is the type of album that will make its way to the turn table without conscious effort. more . . . http://ripplemusic.blogspot.com/2009/07/sarke-vorunah.html