SEASON OF MIST
Scottish folk/black metal historians dial the metal up to 11
WHO SAYS NATIONAL pride should be monopolised by the Scandinavians?
When you think of black metal bands taking pride in local culture, it’s where your brain always goes, picturing Bathory and Enslaved genuflecting before the Vikings. However, Saor have been distilling the sound of Scotland’s sweeping Highlands into metal for 10 years now.
For Saor’s fifth fulllength, Andy Marshall’s ‘Caledonian metal’ solo project once again taps the native soil for inspiration. Their sixth album is an ode to the Picts – the forefathers of the present-day Scots, who lived in the north of the country some one thousand years ago. And musically, it puts its money where its mouth is. Saor marry extreme metal with Gaelic folk so that not only is
