Burning Winds (USA) – Hell And Damnation CD

Black Metal

For those who’ve lurked within the black metal underground since the late ’90s, the name BURNING WINDS should carry the cultest cachet. Formed in 1997, the band is the sole creative province of one NecroDan, hailing from the American wasteland of Michigan, which unbirthed such foul entities as Masochist, SUMMON, and Wind of the Black Mountains. BURNING WINDS are very much of this sonic lineage, defiantly utilizing the ugliest, most primitive black metal in the most unorthodox of ways. For many, the band first came to attention / infamy via Paul Ledney’s extremely short-lived Necroscope label and the seemingly full-length The Flame of Lucifer – here, also underlining the aesthetic links to PROFANATICA and especially HAVOHEJ – but “seemingly” in the sense that that recording was album length and yet otherwise considered an EP; the same could be said for 2005’s classic Cease to Exist compilation. As the decades slogged on, NecroDan would intermittently emerge with a new / “new” recording, always in the most underground manner and with absolutely zero fanfare, preferring the private and autodidactic over any sort of cultivated “mystery” or scene involvement.