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ASAGRAUM was founded to create pure Satanic black metal, with the old-school feeling of the eternal ’90s greats and with dark psychedelic influences. Their debut album Potestas Magicum Diaboli, released by KVLT Records in 2017, reaped widespread acclaim across the world, garnering attention, largely because it was the work of two women – a rarity in black metal – who quickly rendered gender an irrelevant argument. Dawn of Infinite Fire sees ASAGRAUM burning with equally intensity in songwriting, execution, and atmosphere, staying true to their original aims whilst pushing their classicist sound further into the present. Granted, that blast-from-the-past classicism is inescapable – this is pure, traditional BLACK METAL above all – but not once across Dawn of Infinite Fire does that hinder their timeless expression. If anything, this is the sound of ASAGRAUM at their most anthemic and triumphant, marching forward with obsidian austerity, reflecting their prolific presence on the live front: tangibly physical black metal, played with passion and authenticity and not augmented by cheap studio trickery. Brazen that expression might be – not to overstate the fact, but most nowadays black metal hides in the shadows – but ASAGRAUM continue to sound fresh among that modern BM landscape, outstripping the prevailing trends and the pretenders who enable them.