Metal Hammer UK

LEONOV

VINTER

Leonov have been releasing music at a glacial pace, their stately post-metal tending towardshowever, sees the Norwegians carving out an album that possesses more grace –and more grit –than anything previous. After the Godspeed!-like blip of the quintet enter a more individualistic space: stark, cinematic and seemingly informed by life in a land endlessly riven and reshaped by the whims of slowly shifting ice. While Leonov are adept at moving from faint flickers to hugely satisfying riff avalanches (check out the

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