Manchester’s savage sons Wode return with their fourth album, ‘Uncrossing The Keys’, marking a confident expansion of their already formidable sound built upon a shadowy foundation of feral black metal and ironclad heavy metal heft.
‘Uncrossing The Keys’ hasn’t softened Wode’s music, the sound remains steeped in flame and fury, but they’ve embraced a wider spectrum of moods, painting with blacker, richer hues than ever before.
Conjuring visions of a world perpetually on the edge of twilight Wode casts a long, cold silhouette over the course of ‘Uncrossing The Keys’ nine tracks. There’s a sense of both grandeur and decay, as though the band opened a gateway to a realm where cursed cities smolder under blood-red skies, their walls echoing forsaken hymns eternally.
The result of a constant evolutionary process Wode has crafted a truly haunted and commanding blackened heavy metal that raises a dark banner high over a vast and desolate kingdom.
