“About halfway through "The Fate of Souls After Death", a late-album highlight from The Threnody of Triumph, the excellent if excessive new record from Manchester's Winterfylleth, the band slows the black-metal pummel upon which the track has depended. The drums drop into a half-time march, and the guitars relax their harsh roar, riffs etching harmonies against a background wall of distortion. But ”
