Finland’s underground black metal scene has long been a breeding ground for sonic extremity, but this split between Verge and Blood Red Fog pushes boundaries in ways that feel both sacrilegious and strangely poetic. It’s not just a collaboration—it’s a confrontation.

Verge: The Heretic’s Jazz Funeral
Verge opens the ritual with a sound that’s hard to categorize. Their tracks are steeped in depressive black metal, yet laced with psychedelic flourishes and unexpected melodic detours. The guitars shimmer with fuzz, the vocals teeter between anguish and theatricality, and the organ work feels like it was stolen from a haunted cathedral. There’s a sense of spiritual decay here—like gospel music inverted and dragged through the mire. Their cover of Tenhi’s “Hiensynty” is a standout: mournful, cleanly sung, and eerily serene, offering a rare glimpse of light in an otherwise chaotic sermon.

The Ritual of Blood Red Fog’s is colder, more traditional, but no less disturbing. Their compositions stretch into long, meditative dirges, where repetition becomes hypnosis and melody is a slow bleed. The vocals are buried and distant, like screams heard through thick fog. Guitars weave sorrowful patterns, never rushing, always lingering. There’s a sense of ritual here—of something ancient being summoned, not for glory, but for grief. It’s black metal stripped of grandeur, left with only its bones and shadows.

Because It’s Wrong is not an easy listen, nor is it meant to be. It’s a split that challenges the listener to sit with discomfort, to embrace the grotesque beauty of spiritual collapse. Verge brings the madness; Blood Red Fog brings the mourning. Together, they craft a sonic confession that feels both intimate and blasphemous.

If you’re drawn to black metal that breaks its own rules and dances on the edge of genre, this split is a revelation. Or perhaps, a damnation. ~ FF
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