On Burning Embers, Forgotten Wolves, the artist behind Autrest provides us with 42 minutes of nature-inspired atmospheric black metal. It’s well crafted, and the artist clearly knows what he’s doing.

Autrest’s style is a richly atmospheric one, with melodic colour, acoustic texture, and orchestral enrichments. Elements of blackgaze and post-black metal can be heard, blending in with their expansive surroundings quite naturally, although these are far from the main ingredient in Autrest’s musical recipe.

Buring Embers, Forgotten Wolves is a quality slice of atmospheric black metal. It’s well-written and frequently beautiful. The compositions are detailed and richly rendered, with each track showing the kind of love and care that comes from being a real passion project. It’s an album of absorbing atmospheric depth, yet has a ferocious blackened bite when it needs to.

You definitely need to spend some time with Autrest if you’re a fan of bands such as Aquilus, Belore, Cân Bardd, Panopticon, Ruadh, Saor, Wolves in the Throne Room, etc.

199 copies on swamp green vinyl, incl. gatefold cover and download.