Debut album, “Everlasting Wisdom Of The Ancients”, out on July 11th!
America’s Sigorspéd are a new addition to the Order of the Broken Sword circle, which includes labelmates Luring, Azathoth’s Dream, and Wuldorgast. With but a demo at the beginning of this year to announce their arrival, the power-trio are set to shed blood within the black metal underground with their full-length debut, Everlasting Wisdom of the Ancients.
On the surface, Sigorspéd seem like the most pagan-oriented band among the Order of the Broken Sword, and it’s not entirely inaccurate to label them as such. However, Sigorspéd eschew most of the tropes that characterize pagan black metal in favor of something unremittingly ugly and mercilessly attacking. As blitzkrieging as the best Swedish black metal but with a deeper, darker tone to their riffing, Sigorspéd dole out wave upon wave of viscous hypnosis, loose yet locked-in. Tangibly physical and acutely dotted with subtle twists of texture, Everlasting Wisdom of the Ancients surges forth with iron-fisted songwriting and sympathetic production; form and content are thus in symbiotic balance. Above all, Sigorspéd are bare-bones but betray a depth that’s never belabored, psychically in line with the likes of Arckanum, Old Wainds, and Sorcier des Glaces whilst hinting at new hinterlands to roam in the future: Everlasting Wisdom of the Ancients indeed!
