Settlements were grouped around bays with glassily still waters, gelid ponds looked like sightless eyes and everything appeared in high definition as if the air had just been rinsed.
On gelid winter evenings under pale violet skies we'd leave the office and duck into lounges with real fireplaces, bars where drink specials were served hot and tasted like peppermint.
If black metal is the perfect complement to winter, evoking a blasted and frostbitten tundra with gelid guitar and hoarfrost production, then death metal is its antithesis.
