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Artist: John Spider
Title: Empyrium
Genre: Unknown
Deezer: https://www.deezer.com/track/3302257741 | YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AJoae4tdo8
#Music #Deezer #SoundCloud #YouTube #EDM #Playlist #Electronic #John #Spider #Empyrium

🎵 Empyrium - With the Current Into Grey (Album: The Turn of the Tides)
⏱️ Durée: 7:32
🎧 #Empyrium #WiththeCurrentIntoGrey #AtmosphericAmbiant #FuneralAtmospheric #Doom #NowPlaying

🎵 Empyrium - Dying Brokenhearted (Album: Where at Night the Wood Grouse Plays)
⏱️ Durée: 5:34
🎧 #Empyrium #DyingBrokenhearted #AtmosphericAmbiant #FuneralAtmospheric #Doom #NowPlaying

🎵 Empyrium - The Shepherd and the Maiden Ghost (Album: Where at Night the Wood Grouse Plays)
⏱️ Durée: 3:22
🎧 #Empyrium #TheShepherdandtheMaidenGhost #Atmospheric #DoomMetal #NowPlaying

🎵 Empyrium - The Franconian Woods in Winter’s Silence (Album: A Wintersunset…)
⏱️ Durée: 10:55
🎧 #Empyrium #TheFranconianWoodsinWinter’sSilence #Atmospheric #DoomMetal #NowPlaying

#Empyrium #TheFranconianWoodsinWintersSilence

#Empyrium #Nachhall

New post: Prophecy Fest 2026 announces first bands and launches presale https://www.moshville.co.uk/news/tours/2025/09/prophecy-fest-2026-announces-first-bands-and-launches-presale/ #CamerataMediolanense #Dornenreich #Empyrium #ProphecyFest

Empyrium, Istapp, The Night Eternal, Imha Tarikat, Servant, Norn?r, Karg, Outlaw, Maat und Wilt
01.05.2026 Berlin / ORWOHaus

#Berlin #Empyrium #ORWOHaus #SteelFeed

Sun After Dark – Tatkraft Review

By Mystikus Hugebeard

Sun After Dark is an enigmatic new project that comes to us from one Benjamin König. He was a co-founding member and the principal composer of frigid black metal legends Lunar Aurora, which will surely excite my Dear and Hollow friend, but has very few listed musical credits since Lunar Aurora’s dissolution in 2012. In the interim, König has been a prolific artist, providing album artwork for bands like Botanist, Horna, Equilibrium, and so on. In fact, König’s artwork for Polar Veil by Hexvessel was even awarded 10th place on GardensTale’s Illustrious Artwork Extravaganza. Today, Herr König is ~~cursed~~ blessed with his first trve AMG review, for his first musical work in roughly a decade: Tatkraft.

At the risk of oversimplifying the myriad of musical ideas within Tatkraft, I would affectionately classify Tatkraft as blackened gothic metal. The opening volley efficiently demonstrates what Sun After Dark is about. “Dawn and Dirges” opens with a bevy of keyboard effects augmenting the guitars as they grow in intensity, launching into an immensely satisfying riff as the vocals appear. Thomas Helm (Empyrium, and the other permanent member of Sun After Dark) has a rich, operatic croon that contrasts nicely with Matthias Jell’s (Azathoth from Dark Fortress) nastier shrieks. “Waidmanns Hoffnung” shows visions of Tatkraft’s slower side, interspersing long passages of gloomy guitars and electronic drums with brief forays into blackened aggression. Like a medium-rare steak and red wine, the softer and heavier sides of Tatkraft pair deliciously. Tatkraft will often remind one of other bands—the vibes are a little bit The Vision Bleak, there’s some ambient traces of Lunar Aurora to be found, naturally, and Helm’s singular vocals cannot help but evoke Empyrium—but König balances the album’s sonic elements with finesse and creativity such that Tatkraft sounds wholly original throughout.

While the facets of Tatkraft complement each other well, the album’s greatest strength lies in König‘s inspired songwriting; the mashed potatoes with our steak and wine, if you will. Gnashing guitars (“Dawn and Dirges”), emotionally rich melodies (“Leaving Metropolis”), or folksy energy (“Schlittenfahrt”) hooks the listener straight away, until repeat listens reveal the layers of depth König has hidden behind the musicianship. In this regard, Tatkraft’s keyboards rival Atlas in weight carried. Flanging and warbling keyboards form a swirling tempest around the guitars in “Dawn and Dirges,” “Burning Blue,” “Antarctic Morning,” or they eke out a siren’s droning hum in “Waidmanns Hoffnung,” or any of the other infinite tiny tricks heard across the whole of Tatkraft. It’s all subtle and unobtrusive, and it’s a great way to utilize the negative space that makes for some wonderful moments like the blaring emergency honks atop chugging guitars towards the end of “Antarctic Morning.” The mix, by Victor Bullok of Triptykon, enables this depth to shine through while the moment-to-moment experience remains immediate and engaging.

What ultimately holds Tatkraft back from the higher score it deserves is a matter of focus. König is undoubtedly a talented songwriter with solid songcraft ideas, but these ideas infrequently culminate into a single, structurally satisfying whole. What highlights this are the sheer strength of “Burning Blue” and “Antarctic Morning,” where each sequence seamlessly flows into the next until reaching the climax. These songs do wield some of the strongest material in Tatkraft, so perhaps they’re unfairly advantaged. Still, there is a clear-cut and engaging progression to each song’s flow, which in turn highlights the opposite in “Ohne Grab” and “Schlittenfahrt.” Each song is similarly laden with strong ideas—I love the raking guitars that open “Ohne Grab” and the polka-inspired riffs of “Schlittenfahrt” (featuring Mosaic’s Martin Falkenstein) are a blast in a vacuum—but the flow is absent. The individual sequences in “Ohne Grab” are starkly different from one another, and the transitions between them lack any grace, while “Schlittenfahrt,” despite a strong core riff, feels incomplete, as if it were missing its second or third act. But ultimately, these rough edges do feel earned, not so much subtracting from the big picture but adding texture. No song on Tatkraft lacks in inspiration or sincerity, and boredom will be a foreign concept during your listening experience.

In the end, Tatkraft has made me an eager fan of Sun After Dark. There are a few things here and there to be ironed out, but I feel genuinely excited for Sun After Dark’s future. I shall be recommending Tatkraft to like-minded individuals, but when the day arrives, we get an album full of “Burning Blue”‘s and “Antarctic Morning”‘s, no god nor king could stop my blackened gothic crusade from spreading Sun After Dark to all.

Rating: Good!!
DR: 5 | Format Reviewed: 320 kbps mp3
Label: Hammerheart Records
Websites: facebook | bandcamp
Releases Worldwide: June 13th, 2025

#2025 #30 #BlackMetal #BlackenedGothic #DarkFortress #Empyrium #GermanMetal #GothicMetal #Jun25 #LunarAurora #Mosaic #Review #Reviews #SunAfterDark #Tatkraft #TheVisionBleak #Triptykon

When #shadows grow longer
And the sun sets for the forthcoming night
Our #sorrow is stronger
As #darkness and death are now near by our side
Many a sun will set and tears of grief will be shed

#empyrium #blackandwhite #monochrome #trees #treescape #forest #forestscape #landscape #landscapephotography #nature #natureawaits #mood #mistery #darkness #melancholic

Album of the day: Empyrium - Über den Sternen #doommetal #folkmetal #metal #empyrium
https://empyrium.bandcamp.com/album/ber-den-sternen

Cave of Wonder

With just over a week before Solstice fly out to Finland, and life outside the band likewise refusing to slow down; I take brief pause to reflect on a wonderful weekend in and around Balver Höhle.

Prophecy Fest has always been a unique affair. Expertly curating an eclectic line-up of bands beyond the usual expectations of Extreme Metal. Personal highlights would have to be incendiary performances by both Perchta and Dymna Lotva – band of the weekend to both neck and ears. Wild noise and feminine fury contrasted by such as the acoustic introspection of Empyrium – performing the entirety of “Where at Night the Wood Grouse Plays” to a rapt audience moved by earnest, well-earned integrity; and of course Wolcensmen at the warm-up.

As for our own set, delivered without apology or compromise, I feel we carried ourselves well. Playing to many who may not be aware of our intent, a quintet of classics offered appropriate introduction – even as we meticulously work on new material for the forthcoming album. The many fists raised and cheers resounding throughout the cave prove our purpose found its place.

Joining the Prophecy family was a daunting prospect; with the tropes of Heavy Metal seeming cliched and primitive against such sophisticated, multi-textured soundscapes. Rather than cower intimidated, I choose to take this as vital inspiration to evolve and grow as an artist. To embrace and explore how these different styles may complement each other, rather than compete in the trite posturing and insecure blather of smaller circles.

To channel another cave, what we believe as reality can often be tainted by the shadowed projections of a narrow, stymied perspective. It is only by stepping into the light that we see what truth may come to pass.

The support and solidarity of our labelmates has been phenomenal. Breaking bread and making merry, sharing conversations insightful and inane. Friendships forged in Wieland’s Smithy, and camaraderie which will linger as steel.

Humblest praise also to the hard-working crew who tirelessly kept everything together over the festival. Their kind patience made us all feel welcome and valued, and none of this could happen without their exemplary efforts.

It is by no coincidence that we are all connected. A synchronicity of spirit and sincerity of soul. My gratitude abounds for the presence of those who share these precious moments of wonder; and for the opportunities presented as I walk my own creative path.

https://heathenstorm.com/2024/09/11/cave-of-wonder/

#dymnalotva #empyrium #heavymetal #livemusic #metal #music #neofolk #perchta #prophecyfest #prophecyproductions #solstice #wolcensmen #Blog #Solstice

Wer von euch zappt ebenfalls duster am 2./3.8.? https://www.blacksilence.de/event-details/zappenduster-festival-2024-1

#Uada #UntoOthers #Empyrium #Agrypnie #ChapelOfDisease #TheSpirit #AndOceans #Zappenduster

The FC has an obstacle course pillar at the front of the Estate, I managed to get up to the top today so I did some #Gpose. #FFXIV #FFXIVscreenshot #Reshade #Lalafell #Empyrium