Review of Caelum Sanctimoniae - Hollow Crowns of the False Seraphim
Spent a few nights with Hollow Crowns of the False Seraphim and kept catching myself going back to the same parts. Mostly the guitar lines. Morveth built this thing almost entirely on his own and it doesn’t sound pieced together at all. Feels like one clear idea running through the whole album. A lot of cold tremolo work, layered melodies underneath, then heavier blackened death bursts cutting through when the songs need to break open. The Scandinavian roots are obvious, but it never gets trapped in worship. Some of those melodies stayed in my head longer than I expected. Not the flashy kind either. More the ones sitting behind the riffs that creep up later. Read through the concept after the first listen - false gods, inherited truths, tearing all that down. Made more sense after hearing the album than before. The songs feel tied to it. Not loosely. Like they were written around it from the start. There’s more room in the writing than I expected too. Certain parts open up and breathe ...
