This time, I'm introducing a band that I stumbled across quite some time ago, but I only just got around to listening to their second album “Auf ferner Höhe steht er kahl...” ("It stands bare on distant heights..."). I'm talking about Triste Tage (Sad or dreary days) from East Frisia, a solo project by Draugr that has been around since 2022, through which he realizes his artistic ambitions. After a first sign of life in the form of an EP in 2022 (the two songs included there were also used on the debut album), the first full-length album “Und die Hörner des Sommers verstummten” ("And the horns of summer fell silent") was released the following year, before its successor recently saw the light of day. So you see that the factotum Skaugr, who relied on the support of guest musicians from Convictive, Asarhaddon, and ex-Eïs for vocals and drums on this work, seems to be a busy spirit.
