ASTARIUM “Solar Despair”

Label: More Hate Productions

I am not usually a fan of one-man bands and especially when I see they are black metal, but I always don't judge a book by its cover so I gave this a spin. Wow is this a great release and for one, it is far from typical black metal. This has great use of keyboards/piano and synthesizers. Very mellow stuff on this with clear (not clean) vocals and also black metal vocals. This just sucked me as it was so cool and different and far from what I was expecting. I would not even call this black metal, to be honest. I don't know what to call it ha ha. This leans on more of a keyboard mix and the whole black metal is the singing. Interesting release to say the least.