{"id":1389,"date":"2022-03-23T14:58:46","date_gmt":"2022-03-23T21:58:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sdmetal.org\/msm\/?p=1389"},"modified":"2022-03-25T23:44:57","modified_gmt":"2022-03-26T06:44:57","slug":"behold-three-bands-beholden-to-bal-sagoth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sdmetal.org\/msm\/behold-three-bands-beholden-to-bal-sagoth\/","title":{"rendered":"Behold! Three Bands’ Odes to Bal-Sagoth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\u201cWhatever happened to Bal-Sagoth<\/a><\/strong>??<\/em>\u201d, you say? Well…, when the insane mastermind of anything and everything Bal-Sagoth<\/strong>ian (Mr. Byron Roberts) decided to put the band on a very permanent hold back in 2013 to become a writer, poet, and whatever else…, it created a huge sad gap in the Symphonic Blackened Metal scene. Or did it…? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here are three bands that have taken up the mantle, the Atlantean swords, the enchanted amulets of interstellar gods, and all of the other epic accouterments needed to continue the battle!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the craft beer world, there is an unspoken but very much known thing that happens when a microbrewery or brewpub folds. It\u2019s gear is picked up on the cheap by one or more up-and-coming brewing outfits. The brewers that are still motivated to make good beer for the masses branch out and form or join other breweries. For example, the collapse of Pacific Beach Brewhouse directly led to the formation of AleSmith. Baja Brewing\u2019s gear contributed to founding of Alpine Beer Company. In The Gaslamp, Hang Ten Brewing (n\u00e9e<\/em> Riptide Brewing, n\u00e9e<\/em> Brewski\u2019s) later morphed into Sport\u2019s City Brewing, and it\u2019s shuttering became the impetus for a number of other brewing careers here in San Diego. So what\u2019s the point here? The point is that when one thing dies, it often can give rise to any number of newer (sometimes better) things later on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So that having been said, what has sprung forth upon this plane of existence from the ashes of Bal-Sagoth<\/strong>? Behold!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Chronologically speaking, one of the first acts to pick up where Byron Roberts and co. left off is Zel Agganor<\/strong>, an 2017 one-man project from a certain Mr. Henry Mahy. Keep that name handy: he shows up later on in this epic tale of good vs. evil. His \u201cRise of the Black Star<\/em>\u201d E.P. ticks all of the boxes that you would expect from such a project: brooding instrumental intros that seamlessly meld with the riff-driven passages, symphonic underpinnings, keyboards a\u2019plenty, and lyrics of extra-dimensional battles that turn the \u201cEpic\u201d dial to \u201cMaximum Epic\u2019ness\u201d. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>

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