Déhà released a one-off melodic black metal album.
I responded like a rational adult:
By spiralling into hyperfocus and writing a small novel about it.
The album that made black metal bombastic — Enthrone Darkness Triumphant turned Dimmu Borgir into symphonic monsters, and I loved every melodramatic second of it.
My gateway into full corpse paint mode — Midian is Cradle of Filth at their dramatic, unhinged best. Gothic horror meets blastbeats, and I still haven’t recovered.