The post Heavy Song of the Week: Ihsahn’s “Pilgrimage to Oblivion” Is Symphonic Black Metal at Its Finest appeared first on Consequence. Heavy metal has long been associated with symphonic music.

Few genres do grandiose like symphonic metal. As the name suggests, it marries the scope and ambition of classical music to the power of metal. The result is orchestral, opulent and sometimes OTT, but ...

In particular, many black metal outfits have, whether at one point or throughout their careers, made exceptionally fun use of symphonic elements: Obtained Enslavement, Wallachia, Limbonic Art, ...

When Mark Jansen left the metal band After Forever in early 2002 and then formed the symphonic metal group Sahara Dust (which he then rechristened Epica), he initially asked then-girlfriend Simone ...