TAAKE - ...Doedskvad CD

Taake have yet to reach these lofty heights in the eleven years since this album was released, but the way that Hoest was able to unearth or summon or surrender himself to or however it is he gains access to this kind of perfection after seemingly beginning to briefly gaze down the wrong path has effectively steeled my faith in the man's ability to always have, somewhere inside him, both the will and ability to return to music of this caliber. There was a lot of it on Noregs vaapen, seemingly despite everything about that album that should have prevented it, and it even shone through the muck of Stridens hus only last year, so I know the beating heart of the Hordalands is still there, somewhere. Let's hope Hoest feels its pulse more clearly next time.