It's bordering on a bottomless impudence that SURTURS LOHE are celebrating their 20th anniversary this year and that hardly anyone is still familiar with the Pagan metal genre, while other interpreters have made it quite a long way by means of dubious methods and an even more doubtful frontman. To be fair, however, one has to say that from the Thuringian sextet up to the split release with ODAL from the year 2004 between the years 2002 ("Vor Walvaters Throne") and 2011 ("Nornenwerk") you have heard almost nothing at all, they don't want to claim the spotlight anyway so much for themselves and that, as well as the dislike for the trend status of the genre, in some interviews.... Especially in the narrower genre circles, however, one should definitely know the lady and the gentlemen, because otherwise one would miss a lot of things - like the jubilee work "Seelenheim", which has been published recently and for which one has worked proudly for five years, both instrumentally and lyrically. The result is no less than rousing and above all worthy of a festive event like an anniversary. Already at the introduction "Der Kaiser im Berg", in which the Barbarossa saga is processed, SURTURS LOHE build on opulent radio play character, move away from the instrumental entry of the predecessor work and thus also prove how much the band has developed in compositional terms over the last two decades. This impression is consolidated in the following melodic black manifesto "Lohe Surt", which takes off its four minutes in a straight line and a trace of ordinary ones, as the whole "Nornenwerk" can already note enormous improvements in the rhythmic range.
