The bassist and drummer really shine in the song, and there’s a great guitar solo as well. There are chiming and trilling tones in the song that really make an impression, mixed in with some killer head-moving riffs and even more extravagant vocal fieriness and rage. The second song now available, “ He who sowed a poisoned seed“, is also a high-energy surge, but perhaps more melodically exotic, and both more melancholy and more delirious in its moods. It’s a savage and severe onslaught, to be sure, but so emotionally explosive that I think if you’re feeling down in the dumps it will instead make you feel like you can fight the world and win. It really gets the blood surging and the head hammering, and the sheer, unbridled vibrancy of the music is glorious. Of the two songs from the new album that are currently streaming, the title track is fast and furious, with a strong bass pulse, racing drumwork, and ebullient hammering chords mixed with cascades of high, wondrous melody, flickering arpeggios, and strident, impassioned vocals. And now, hot on the heels of their debut album the band will be releasing a second full-length named Monolith. Through my acquaintance with this German band’s 2015 debut EP, Archar, and their 2018 first album, Maltrér, I became impressed with their ability to create dramatic music of anthemic grandeur and funereal darkness (among other sensations). My thanks (for the 1000th time, give or take) go to Rennie ( starkweather) for recommending this track. I haven’t found a release date or pre-order info for this tape. The sound is so dense and distorted that you probably won’t be able to really focus on everything that happens in the track on just one listen, and I’ve found that the time spent going through it again and again, focusing on just one thing at a time, is time well spent. It’s frighteningly deranged, and all the gleaming, mystical tonalities give it a hallucinatory quality. ![]() The near-clean wailing vocals provide another contrast, though they don’t diminish the song’s ravaging intensity, which becomes further magnified by a shrill, flickering solo. ![]() But within this storm of suffering are head-hooking rhythmic ingredients and clean, ringing guitar tones that provide an ethereal and mesmerizing contrast to the surrounding vortex. The sound is abrasively raw, the voice a shrieking horror, the mood intensely wretched and unhinged. ![]() The Signal Rex label will be releasing a new Void Prayer three-track promo tape called L’appel du vide (“the call of the void”), and the first song in this collection is its title track.Īll the references to the void which surround the band and their titles suggest a certain kind of blood-freezing atmospheric black metal, and “ L’appel du vide” bears out that inference. Their previous releases under the Void Prayer name include a 2014 self-titled demo and a 2017 debut album, Stillbirth From the Psychotic Void, neither of which I’ve heard, but about which I’ve heard good things. Void Prayer (previously known as Cave Ritual) are from Bosnia and Herzegovina, and its members are part of the Black Plague Circle, which also includes Nigrum Ignis Circuli, Deathcircle, Niteris, and Obskuritatem. I can’t think of anything very coherent to say by way of introduction this week, perhaps because the music below has rendered me incoherent.
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