Sunshine & Lollipops Heartful Of Sunshine

"Heartful of Sunshine" is the vinyl-only debut release by the Berlin-based Anarcho Black Metal project Sunshine & Lollipops. It contains two tracks with a playing time of roughly 12 minutes, which manifest inspirations by Norwegian bands of the early 90s such as Darkthrone, Satyricon or Dödheimsgard, as well as influences from old-school Black Metal like Venom or early Samael, and merge those through punky aggression into a homogenous yet individual, intricately structured style. The speed mostly ranges between blastbeat outbursts and thrashy mid-tempo, executed as raw as possible without turning dull. With regards to the lyrical conceptuality, don′t let the curious title fool you, by the way: S&L is concerned mainly with philosophical nihilism and revolt as suggested by Camus rather than inner auroral delight. The bitterly antisocial and pessimist attitude on display even compares to the fatalistic cynicism of Impaled Nazarene or Carnivore′s wacky apocalypse gimmick.