On May 15th internationally, American black metallers Highland will self-release their highly anticipated debut album, Loyal to the Nightsky. A staunchly DIY power-trio, Highland take the icy grandeur of '90s Scandinavian black metal and thaw it out in the present. At 11 songs in nearly an hour, Loyal to the Nightsky is a powerful and dynamic experience full of feverish height and desolate lows, all harnessed through the timeless craft of pure, authentic black metal. Traces of classic Immortal, Dissection, and Emperor can certainly be detected, but Highland possess a dizzying, multi-dimensional intensity all their own. Loyal to the Nightsky is both the summation of the band's hard graft to date and the beginning of a glorious new journey that'll soon have the name Highland upon the tongues of devotees worldwide. Highland is comprised of three Armenian-Americans from Los Angeles, California. Narek and Gevork met in 2005, and shared a mutual in...