Helsinki, Finland
Eclectic Metal
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June 7, 2024
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June 7, 2024
Hexvessel
For much of their career, Hexvessel has been one of those
non-metal/metal-adjacent bands, mentioned in metal circles
due either to member affiliations or vague psuedo-metal stylings
(and both of those are present here).
At their hardest, their acoustic dark folk
wanders into occult territory
and might remind one of bands like
Jess And The Ancient Ones .
On their most recent effort (2023's
Polar Veil ),
there's a slight shift, the introduction of icy black metal
guitars interwoven with their previous folkisms, which is alternatingly
incongruous and yet also intriguing.
Whether this is a one-off detour or a move toward a different style,
remains to be seen.
The BNR pick for best album is 2016's
When We Are Death , where the
aforementioned occult hard rock influence seems the strongest.
Discography
Studio
Live
Compilation
Dawnbearer
2011
Svart
Invocation Summoning
Heart of the Mind World
Scarlet Cassocks
The Death Knell Tolls
A Cabalist Under the Gallows
I Am the Ritual
Radiant Transcendent
Wayward Confessor
Diamonds (Paul Simon cover)
A Stranger's Grave
Conversations with Rosa
The Tunnel at the End of the Light
Solomon's Song
Wychwood Shrine
Oracle of the Starlit Dawn
Mathew McNerney
Andy McIvor
Jaime Gomez Arellano
No Holier Temple
2012
Svart
Heaven and Earth Magic
Woods to Conjure
Wilderness Is!
A Letter in Birch Bark
Elegy to Goyahkla
His Portal Tomb
Are You Coniferous?
Sacred Marriage
Dues to the Dolmen
Unseen Sun
Your Head Is Reeling (Ultimate Spinach cover)
Mathew McNerney
Marja Konttinen
Simo Kuosmanen
Vesa Ajomo
Niini Rossi
Kimmo Helén
Jussi Saarivuori
Jukka Rämänen
Iron Marsh
EP
2013
Mathew McNerney
Marja Konttinen
Simo Kuosmanen
Vesa Ajomo
Niini Rossi
Kimmo Helén
Jukka Rämänen
When We Are Death
2016
Century Media
Transparent Eyeball
Earth over Us
Cosmic Truth
When I'm Dead
Mirror Boy
Drugged Up on the Universe
Teeth of the Mountain
Green Gold
Mushroom Spirit Doors
Hunter's Prayer
Shaman You
Mathew McNerney
Marja Konttinen
Simo Kuosmanen
Niini Rossi
Kimmo Helén
Jukka Rämänen
Unfurled
COMPILATION
2016
All Tree
2019
Century Media
Blessing
Son of the Sky
Old Tree
Changeling
Ancient Astronaut
Visions of A.O.S.
A Sylvan Sign
Wilderness Spirit
Otherworld Envoy
Birthmark
Journey to Carnac
Liminal Night
Closing Circles
Mathew McNerney
Marja Konttinen
Andy McIvor
Jesse Heikkinen
Kimmo Helén
Jukka Rämänen
Anti Haapapuro
Daniel Pioro
Dirk Campbell
Kindred
2020
Svart
Billion Year Old Being
Demian
Fire of the Mind
Bog Bodies
Sic Luceat Lux
Phaedra
Family
Kindred Moon
Magical and Damned
Joy of Sacrifice
Mathew McNerney
Marja Konttinen
Andy McIvor
Jesse Heikkinen
Ville Hakonen
Kimmo Helén
Jukka Rämänen
Anti Haapapuro
Dawnbearer Live 2021
LIVE
2022
independent
Invocation Summoning
Heart of the Mind World
Scarlett Cassocks
The Death Knell Tolls
A Cabalist Under the Gallows
I Am the Ritual
Radient Transcendent
Wayward Confessor
Diamonds
A Strangers Grave
Conversations with Rosa
The Tunnel at the End of the Light
Solomon's Song
Wychwood Shrine
Oracle of the Starlit Dawn
Mathew McNerney
Andy McIvor
Jesse Heikkinen
Ville Hakonen
Kimmo Helén
Jaakko Niemelä
Jukka Rämänen
Polar Veil
2023
Svart
The Tundra Is Awake
Older than the Gods
Listen to the River
A Cabin in Montana
Eternal Meadow
Crepuscular Creatures
Ring
Homeward Polar Spirit
Mathew McNerney
Ville Hakonen
Kimmo Helén
Jukka Rämänen