Best Black Metal Guitar Solo

For many years I listen to Black Metal Genre, I rarely found a guitar solo. Maybe some of you would say that there is a guitar solo in some of Dimmu Borgir, Mayhem, Burzum, Darkthrone recordings, but I think that is not that good. Now I will talk about the best guitar solo in Black Metal.

If you know about the band called Drudkh, the most known Black Metal act in Ukraine, they have a great guitar solo in their song "Furrows of God", it is not really that clear, but you can hear some shreddy guitar solo. And in Emperor's "The Loss and Curse of Reverence", there is a guitar solo but you can barely listen to that, you can clearly see the solo live, it is very clear that Ihsahn is a great guitarist. In the Arcturus's "To Thou Who Dwellest In the Night", there is a very very brilliant guitar solo by Carl August Tidemann. Actually I don't know this man, and when I heard this guitar solo, I know that this man is a very great shredder. He put on some fast sweep-picking techniques in this solo, and his playing is very clean Oh My God. But... There is a better solo than the previous one, this is called "Ancestor of Magick" by Arthemesia. Some of you maybe don't know about this great Black Metal band, but there is Jari Maenpaa who fills the guitar. He is one of the very best guitarists in Finland, and for me one of the best guitarists in the world. The guitar solo in this song is fast and clean, it is like the previous one, Jari also use the clean, fast sweep-picking techniques.

For me, "Ancestor of Magick" is the best Black Metal guitar solo ever, the second is "To Thou Who Dwellest In The Night", the third is "Furrows of God", and fourth is "Loss and Curse of Reverence". But if you know a Black Metal guitar solo that is better than "Ancestor of Magick", let me know, I wonder how great it is.

Thanks for reading, sorry for my bad grammar, Terima Kasih!!

Djiwo - Cakra Bhirawa

Hello World, I would like to introduce to you, the Indonesian Black/Doom hordes Djiwo. Actually I don't really into the Doom Metal scene but I really love Black Metal so I will talk about this band, especially their first album "Cakra Bhirawa". Djiwo, formed in 2013 and consists of two members, Djiwo Ratriarkha and Fancy Burn, I got this information from Encyclopaedia Metallum. They released their first album "Cakra Bhirawa" in August 2014.

When I heard the words "Black Doom", I always thought about Barathrum and yes I think that some of the riffs in this album similar to Barathrum but with a slower tempos. And the double bass drumming makes me think of Loits, Black Metal act from Estonia, although Loits is not a Black Doom band. What I like about "Cakra Bhirawa" is there is a bluesy guitar solo but somehow it also contains a little bit of Javanese influence. And the vocals, the high-pitch shrieking vocals, reminds me of Alghazanth, a Symphonic Black Metal band from Finland.

For me, "Cakra Bhirawa" is a mix between Loits, Barathrum, and Alghazanth. The minus point of this album is I really don't know the lyrics, and I don't know what what He is saying in this album. I don't know if their lyrics are English or Bahasa Indonesia, or maybe I'm just stupid. Maybe I would rate it 79 out of 100.

Thanks for reading, sorry for my bad grammar, Terima Kasih!!

Barque of Dante Alchemist

Some of you may knew this Power Metal band from China. They are really good as a Power Metal band. I already listened to their first two albums, and they sound like a European Power Metal band, especially in the second album where Thomas Winkler from Gloryhammer fills the vocal section. But, in the third album, Alchemist, it really surprised me because of the additional elements of Progressive Metal. And then I find out that Aquiles Priester (ex-Angra, Hangar) played the drum in this album. This album is great, the instrumentation, vocals by Rob Lundgren, it is all great. But....

Some of the songs in this album will remind you of Angra's "Temple of Shadows". I think it is the "Temple of Shadows" without Brazilian folk elements. One of the example is the song "Spread Your Wings" that is close enough with Angra's "Spread Your Fire". Not only the title that similar, I think the song is similar too, the drumming at the intro and at the chorus that is very Angra-ish, and the guitar solo too. The third song, "Ocean of Dreams" somehow reminds me of "The Shadow Hunter", and the guitar solo at the title track "The Alchemist" also reminds me of Angra.

I know some of you may think that "Alchemist" and "Temple of Shadows" are different in many ways, yes it is, but for me the two are really comparable, because they have the same drummer, and similar guitar playing style, and they both great. I really like the vocals of Rob Lundgren in this album, so I think that "Alchemist" is slightly better. I think it is 95 out of 100.

Thanks for reading, sorry for my bad grammar, Terima Kasih!!