Violet Cold – Desperate Dreams
Violet Cold – Desperate Dreams Seeing the title "Desperate Dreams" and the tag "black metal", most minds will be set to the most normative standard of what black metal is supposed to be: A dark convulsion of feelings. Anger, frustration, ill-intent and whatever is considered to be negative. But, there is another side to this musical landscape that, for me, seems to come to fruition in newer bands and the iterations and mingling of different musical elements. Some annotate this kind with the denominator of "hipster", which in more considered and less visually inclined terms still is better said in the prefix of "post-" metal. Deafheaven might be one of the first and biggest name to fall under this newish category and rightfully so. They were the first band who’s piercing shrieking I found fitting and listenable by means of emotional depth and affective appeal. In Violet Cold we find, what often times can be found in this field of music,...