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Hello fellow Sorry Staters! What a wild fucking time we are living in right now. Why can’t all the reasonable, kind-hearted people just be blasted off into space to start a new colony on Mars or something?! I hope everyone continues to make the best of this horrible timeline. Therapy has been doing wonders for me to get past it all, but damn does it still feel heavy.
Black metal has always been a genre that has kinda been adjacent to punk for me. I have always been intrigued by it and have always thought it was so daunting trying to figure out where to start, but like everything else I just jumped in with what was being talked about the most. This has never really steered me wrong, but this past week I have been going down a hole consuming a lot of raw black metal and dungeon synth… well mostly dungeon synth. I can’t help but love something I can just have on in the background while doing mundane chores around the house while imagining that I’m on my way to fight some big-ass dragon like I’m a character in Skyrim.
Old Nick is one of those raw black metal / dungeon synth acts that when you first hear it, you can’t help but scratch your head and wonder if they are being serious or not. Old Nick released their first album in 2020 and have released plenty more in the five years they have been together. Some sound completely the same, and some that take on a whole new meaning to raw black metal and dungeon synth. Often using lo-fi dancey type beats at the beginning of songs to using a melodica and a mandolin in most others. In the album Crisp Winter Dawn Of My Night Moon, the track Haunted Broom comes out of the gate with a thumping synth that sounds like some evil dream sequence. It’s a great EP from start to finish, and everything in their catalog is totally worth checking out.