### Spectral Lore: Sentinel

#### 21/08/12 || Smalley

Spectral Lore is a Greek act that plays this sort of thick, long-winded, a-melodic, ambient black metal, somewhat similar to Wolves In The Throne Room. And, since I haven’t been able to get into Wolves (yet), it makes perfect sense that “Sentinel” leaves me high and dry, but the funny thing is, I can’t really say that this is a bad record at all, rather, it just doesn’t click with my personal preferences. And that last sparse, half hour-long ambient track…? Zzzz. Despite an overall nice, ominous atmosphere, the music just drones and hammers away for me, with no real hooks to get into, but, I can still easily imagine how someone who’s into this style would find it moving, compelling, a religious experience or whatever, so based on them succeeding within their own style (regardless of whether I enjoy that or not), I’ll give my final score here an extra half-point because of that

6.5/10: Plz don’t call this “hipster black metal though, that’s just stupid. Almost as stupid as writing “plz”, in fact.