It's always exciting to stumble across that quality band that has been around a while, but for some reason you've never heard of. Bleakwail hails from Finland and their Songs of Sorrow EP has been receiving some significant playtime in my CD player lately. Bleakwail classifies their music as Christian gothic dark metal. They mix black metal and goth for a combination that comes across very well, as these five songs really grab my attention and keep me coming back for more. From the brutal black metal and horrifying vocals, to the calmer passages with very deep and haunting clean vocals, I'm hearing a band that has some great potential. The lyrics are very worshipful and very maturely written. And the production and packaging are also fairly well done, including a cool band picture with the guys in corpse paint. This band is not yet in the ranks of bands like Antestor or Slechtvalk, but if they stay the course, I could definitely see Bleakwail making huge waves in the extreme metal scene in the very near future.
