Freezingly cold melodic Black Metal from the dark of Germany. This is FROSTED UNDERGROWTH’s third full-length album – and they are continuing the style from the two first albums “Shadows Of Ascending Darkness” from 2019 and “Toward Hollow Kingdoms” from 2022 quite well. I have always sensed a heavy cloak of the early ’90s Swedish Melodic Black scene, in the music FROSTED UNDERGROWTH delivers, just take ‘Glacier On Permafrost’ and tell me you don’t hear THRONE OF AHAZ haunt the structure and feel – there are hints of the Norwegian scene as well. I can’t help thinking of the riffing, melody and structure of the middle piece of IMMORTAL’s ‘Where Dark And Light Don’t Differ’ from “At The Heart Of Winter”, when listening to ‘Mist Of Plague’. It’s been a good while since a fairly new band has taken me on a great nostalgic trip, as FROSTED UNDERGROWTH does with their new album. A tour de force of times where we were far away from the sun, had diabolical thoughts when autumn storms came and were freezing at the heart of winter while being damned in black on twilight enthroned embraced by silence from beyond. The atmosphere on the album is immense and gripping, the melodies drawing and the backbone catching – the songwriting is great and focused. I wasn’t expecting much when I put this album on. The first two albums from FROSTED UNDERGROWTH are decent and enjoyable, but that is it. Though the atmosphere, crafted melodies, melancholy together with the pure blazing coldness of old Scandinavian melodic Black Metal pulls this album up high. Catchy, intense and drawing. More info at: www.facebook.com/frostedundergrowth, www.facebook.com/folterrecordsgermany