Description
Founded in 2009, Pantheon of Blood had their aesthetic nailed down from the start: gnawing, tense black metal, somehow sky-spanning and even a bit mystical. That they hailed from Finland’s always-fertile black metal underground was both a surprise, and it wasn’t; certainly the quality was just as high as those who came before, but alongside such bands as Verge, Cosmic Church, Rahu, Charnel Winds, Arvet, and Saturnian Winds among others, this new breed of Finnish underground black metal was confidently striding out upon their own, unique territory. Pantheon of Blood joined that march with 2010’s self-titled debut demo, and across three successive EPs and a split, they subtly expanded upon that aesthetic and developed the mysticism further, in line with their lyrical conceits of blood mysticism understood in a metaphysical manner as well ideas from occultism…
