Pale Swordsman by Këkht Aräkh blends lo-fi black metal with fragile melancholy. A raw, poetic album that pulls you into a world of sorrow, longing, and quiet devastation.
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.