Darkenhold though is the only band today that I have seen actively working to be as pure traditional in sound as they can. They are preservationists. That being said, as an album experience Echoes of the Stone Keeper has a lot of good points but seems to struggle with finding the perfect ideas in song construction. Perhaps its due to their effort to celebrate all these many classic recordings, which all had their own unique ways to build a song.

"Passage To The Towers" (2010). Atmospheric/Epic Medieval Black Metal from France. Debut album released on Ancestrale Productions. Ten stories which present the universe of DARKENHÖLD, showing its evocative power and putting an accent on its sound signature, drenched in the ink of a melodic Black Metal, with landscapes and underground galleries possessed by the medieval majesty, haloed by atmospheres and opened on imagination.