With The Funeral Pyre, he joins acts like Sun of the Sleepless and Spectral Wound as artists who play throwback melodic black metal with such verve and venom that it sounds as fresh as when it first emerged from the primordial forests. Kvaen 1 is the solo project of Swedish musician Jakob Björnfot ( The Duskfall), although he employs a number of guest musicians to flesh out his vision. Kvaen‘s debut The Funeral Pyre is just such an angel. But every so often the heavy metal door will creak open to reveal a gift of an album, a radiant angel of mercy taking me by the hand and bearing me away from my imprisonment on wings of fire. Sometimes they’re sickly and die within the first 24 hours, but I still have to drag their corpse everywhere: to the rock breaking fields, to the weightlifting station during yard time, to my wife’s conjugal visits. If I’m lucky, my temporary cell mate is tolerable and I won’t wake up to them leering over my bunk. Each week, my cell door is thrown open in the wee hours and I’m roughly shackled to a new album. Now I break rocks all day in AMG’s labor camp. The freedom was beautiful, and I took it for granted. If the first couple songs didn’t grab me, I could hit pause, move on to something else, and never give it another thought. If I liked an album, I’d spin it as often as I pleased for as long as I pleased. I miss the days before my gig as a review monkey.
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