Here we go! Coming at you with a band that sounds like one of Skwisgar’s former groups, it’s Shylmagoghnar’s The Sea. Apparently the band started as two dudes, and now it’s maybe just one guy, Nimblkorg. It’s gotta be tough to play all those instruments at the same time, but he seems to do a pretty solid job of it. In one whole song he’s covering guitars, bass, drums, synthesizers, piano, flute, violin, and vocals!

The song starts with a creepy poem about the sea, before some plinky plunky grandspas guitar work coupled with violins. The vocals are primarily whispers, which is kind of fun and spooky. About halfway through there’s a breakdown and some bigass guitar work, as if it’s another movement within the song. The guitar solo is pretty soaring, and feels like something Skwisgar would use in a song about the ocean. But maybe not Go Into the Ocean. A different ocean song. There’s also some good piano work that gives it more of an epic/operatic metal vibe than melodic black metal. At 8 minutes, the track does feel a little long, but there are enough changes that it’s not too bad. Maybe it could be two four minute songs, but who am I to judge. I can’t play ANY instrument, let alone eight.

The video itself makes the band look like they’re underwater, while it cuts to clips of fish and waves and stuff. They’re really leaning on the title with that. There’s some other stuff, like candles doing their thing, but primarily it’s a lot of ocean. Big splashy cymbals are paired with images of waves crashing, and while that seems a little on the nose, it’s pretty cool. But for a song called the Sea, having a lot of ocean references is pretty great.