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Nargaroth is perhaps best known for having titles like ‘Black Metal Ist Krieg’ or ‘Fuck Off Nowadays Black Metal’, but in truth the career of Kanwulf has been quite serious and ‘Jahreszeiten’ is probably among the best Kanwulf has done since the ‘Raslukas’ and ‘Geliebte’ albums. ‘Jahreszeiten’ consists of only 5 tracks but it's over an hour of playtime. ‘Prolog’ is an ambient intro with some German spoken word, and ‘Fruhling’ which means ‘Spring’ is among the happiest tracks the band have ever done but it has also summed up those extremely positive feelings and turned them into an exceptionally black metal song. ‘Sommer’ opens with some classical electric guitar work that shifts to Kanwulf's bloodcurdling snarls over some other classically influenced patterns. ‘Herbst’ is a little more depressive, but features everything from acoustics to spacey synths, and despite its 22 minutes of length, one of the better tracks on the album. ‘Winter’ is the grand finale and has some grim and evil riffs. The amazingly simple and yet overwhelmingly cold riff drones for quite a few minutes while blastbeats destroy everything in their path, creating the ultimate misanthropic black metal anthem that even if its 16 minutes never gets boring. The album is hissing and raw sounding enough to occasionally hurt your brain, but this shouldn’t be any problem as its probably the sound that most Nargaroth fans wants anyway. Kanwulf sounds raspy and hostile in his vocal delivery as usual. Limited A5 digibook with embroided logo patch. Limited to 1000 copies Track listing: 1. Prolog 2. Fruhling/Spring 3. Sommer/Summer 4. Herbst/Autumn 5. Winter