Iron Bonehead Productions is proud to present Ancient Guard’s striking debut mini-album, ‘Nightfall Enthroned’, on CD and 12″ vinyl formats.
Ancient Guard is a new creation of Nightwolf, renown for pagan Black Metal vanguard Runespell. As expected, his unmistakable mastery is all across ‘Nightfall Enthroned’, Ancient Guard’s first public work. A surprisingly vast mini-album at four songs in 31 minutes, ‘Nightfall Enthroned’ is immersive to the extreme and almost soothing in its continually cresting swell of sumptuous Black Metal mysticism. While Runespell’s no-less-grandiose sound is oft given to bouts of bloodlust and battle rage, Ancient Guard is pure magisterial march & might as can be expected of such a moniker.
And Nighttwolf’s knack for mesmerizing melodicism holds true here, as well, but if one could make distinctions in this regard, it’s that ‘Nightfall Enthroned’ swirls about to a spacious-yet-thick foundation that’s equal parts stargazing wonder and weight-of-the-universe terror – an infinitely compelling canvas equally suited to adrift dreamers and austere realists alike. Followed by the acoustic lament “Eld,” the synth-heavy epic “A Moonscape Abyss” says exactly everything it needs to about Ancient Guard: awaken to ‘Nightfall Enthroned’!
