(written by Islander)

When the Greek metal band Eldingar released their debut album Maenads in 2021, our own Andy Synn extolled it in his review as embodying a “sense of seminal spirit and elemental exuberance which dates all the way back to the dawn of the Hellenic scene.”

He called it an album that “sits proudly at a nexus point between Black Metal, Melodic Death Metal, and good old Heavy Metal, and practically revels in its hybrid identity,” a “tribute to the metallic majesty of a bygone era” and one that might “also help return it to its former glory.”

We are thus fortunate that Eldingar will soon return with a second album, and its name is Lysistrata. What Andy wrote before holds true again. As before, the music is stylistically multi-faceted and emotionally powerful, viscerally affecting in many ways. Also as before, it’s rooted in compelling philosophical concepts that have a current-day relevance, even though often expressed through ancient Greek traditions and mythologies. Eldingar‘s label describes the themes this way: Continue reading »