From Finland came the bold idea to pack four tracks into nearly 60 minutes, with the longest piece spanning almost 19 minutes. Categorised as Progressive Black Metal, you can naturally extend songs as much as you like, though they prefer the label ‘Blackened Progressive Metal’.
Personally, I still find it a challenging genre; no matter how musically ingenious it is, you can get lost in a sea of artistic ideas that win over a few devotees while most listeners are waiting for a song with a proper structure, a clear beginning and end. By choosing ‘Blackened Progressive Metal’, these Finns don’t restrict themselves to Black Metal alone, as you also hear Death Metal, galloping Rock, and dreamy guitars.
Once again, it’s a difficult genre, but Crimson Dimension manages to make something of it.
