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Buy here: Follow Kvaen: There are many great extreme metal bands in Sweden, but only one from Kalix. This remote beauty spot near the Finnish border, on the northernmost shores of the Baltic, is home to Jacob Björnfot, creative mastermind behind melodic black/death metal project, KVAEN. Video production by Daniel Wahlström at Heavy Groove Media A sumptuous but bitingly intense exploration of beauty and violence, KVAEN’s “The Formless Fires“ is a melodic black metal masterwork radiating an inspirational sense of place. Even more than 2020’s folky, speed metal-infused debut “The Funeral Pyre“ or 2022’s compelling, expansive follow-up, “The Great Below“, the vast pine woods and icy lakes are powerfully evoked in the elemental gloom riffs, chilly melodies, and windswept solos running through these eight mighty songs. Assistin
