VREID – The Skies Turn Black
VREID – The Skies Turn Black
Indie Recordings
Release Date: 06/03/2026
Review by Metalphysicist
8/10
Vreid are a Norway-based band, who are back after several years on hiatus, with a brand new album, “The Skies Turn Black” – to be released on March 6th, via Indie Recordings. The main style of Vreid is Black and Roll, bringing to the mix a bit of Gothic Rock, Epic Metal ambiences, and a couple of songs that benefit from a rifferama and cadence style borrowed from Thrash Metal.
It seemed like lots of musical information to my ears, so let’s get buzzy! The album opens with ‘From These Woods’, a very pleasant song that floats from the Black and Roll to melodic moments (I counted 3 guitar solos in a single song). On ‘The Skies Turn Black’ we get a more straight-edge Black and Roll, with references from NWOBHM, which worked very well to provide melody to the song. The next one, ‘A Second Death’ begins with old school Thrash Metal rifferamas, which provides more heaviness to the song’s feel. ‘Love the Dead’ is a Gothic Rock/Electro song that rolls with inspiring female vocals resonating all over it and sounds sooo cool. This song is my highlight on “The Skies Turn Black”.
Well, those are the main variants among the songs: Black and Roll with melodic appeals; Black and Roll turbo enhanced by Thrash Metal riffs; Black and Roll flirting with Post-Punk/ Gothic elegance. I must mention similarities with Ghost and that kind of Occult Pop-Rock oriented obscurity – these similarities are well impressed on the song ‘Echoes of Life’.
That is the overview of “The Skies Turn Black”, full of great landscapes and musical transitions which sounded just fine for me. However, it felt to me that the album lacks a clearer musical direction for the global sonority of “The Skies Turn Black”, which corroborates the sensation that the album doesn’t have a cohesive enough orbit for the music to revolve around.
TRACKLISTING:
01. From These Woods
02. The Skies Turn Black
03. A Second Death
04. Kraken
05. Loving the Dead
06. Build & Destroy
07. Chaos
08. Flammen
09. Smile of Hate
10. Echoes of Life
11. The Earth Rumbles
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