Lebensraum666
This album is the epiphany of pure evocativeness! Each and every song embraces you within its swirling riffs, the barrage of percussion and the completely acidic vocals! This album is a pure transcendental journey through the craggy, desolate, emptiness of the moon/world!
Favorite track: The Raven.
“At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman, and these hills, the softness of the sky, the outline of these trees at this very minute lose the illusory meaning with which we had clothed them, henceforth more remote than a lost paradise . . . ”
- Albert Camus
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released September 4, 2020
"The opening track (“The Deluge”) is a beautifully mysterious and melancholy instrumental that features acoustic guitars, but what comes next (“The Chasm”) is a delirium of blazing riffage, tumultuous percussion, and wild, scorching shrieks, coupled with flowing melodies that raise visions of frightening grandeur (for some reason it made me think of howling Saharan sandstorms in which djinn princes direct the onslaught).
That feeling of scary exhilaration returns again, but in the meantime “The Shrine” is exotic and seductive in its melodic sorcery (though the vocals remain a torturous, mind-scarring sound). There is again a feeling of majesty in the music’s sweep, but it’s a tragic spectacle, and its moodiness and torment seem to become very personal as well. The chiming and darting notes of “The Arcane” bespeak internal turmoil and grief, yet the song also has its panoramic aspects, both sublime and splintering. There’s a sense of being moonstruck (pun intended) in the strange percussive rhythms and gleaming celestial melodies that open “The Hollow” — until it becomes a whirling lunacy (another moon-inspired word).
The closing track, “The Raven”, shares the name of the Gustave Doré engraving that’s used for the album cover, and it’s an 11-minute excursion which proves to be haunting and harrowing, eerie and engulfing, grim and glittering. About five minutes in, a clean, ringing guitar instrumental gives the music a spectral, bewitching atmosphere (here we are, moonstruck again), and the blazing maelstrom of madness that follows it creates a sharp and startling contrast."
- No Clean Singing
"Dark, slightly mechanical in ambience, immersive, and pretty much everything you need in atmospheric black metal along the harsher/rawer end of the spectrum."
- Machine Music
"Even in the most tumultuous moments of its atmospheric debut album 'At The Heart Of All Beauty Lies Something Inhuman' lies a sense of calming transcendence that bathes you in pale light and elevates you through the darkness. A wonderfully slow-burning journey that marries myriad, almost middle eastern influences with traditional flame and otherworldly post-scapes"
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I don't know about others, but I personally feel melancholic rather than depressed. The atmosphere is so thick that you can cut it with a knife, and after listening to this album (twice in a row), I can safely say that it will not end with two listens Kurt Von Jazzenhoff
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To me this is DSBM at it's best. calming, emotion filled riffs, vocals are a perfect blend between heart wrenching and eerie, and last but not least, the ATMOSPHERE. One of my absolute favorites for this sub genre The Laughing Stock