About this Music
Keep Of Kalessin are the masters of epic extreme metal and, on their second album for Nuclear Blast, the band take their unique and unmistakably progressive sound to a level that goes far beyond their raw, black metal roots. Mainman Obsidian C. is a former live guitarist for the legendary Satyricon and the band once counted drummer Frost (also of 1349) and Mayhem frontman Attila Csihar as members. Though these underground ties are still very much intact, the music they play now is far beyond their early days in Norway.
Reptilian is built upon that melodic but still seething feel of 2008's Kolossus and is a masterful, atmospheric album that rivals anything they've done previously while blowing all competitors out of the water. This growth far exceeds the strict and sometimes creatively stifling limitations of black metal, but it's also what makes them stand apart. After US tours with Dimmu Borgir and Behemoth and with more tours to come, Keep of Kalessin are indeed an unstoppable force!