Okay... This one kind of just sits there for a while before anything really clicks. Not in a mysterious way at first, more like you’re waiting for it to properly open up, and it just… keeps going in the same mood.
There’s melodic black metal and death metal in the mix, sure, but it doesn’t really feel like a conversation between the two. It feels more like one idea being repeated in slightly different lighting. Sometimes heavier, sometimes more open, but not really changing direction.
A lot of the songs rely on that same emotional space. Sad, distant, slow-moving. After a while, you stop noticing where one track ends and the next begins, which might be the point, but it also makes the middle stretch feel longer than it should.
The guitar melodies are probably the main thing holding everything together. Some of them are decent on their own, even memorable in places, but they don’t get used in a way that builds anything. They just come back, circle around, fade out again.
The heavier parts don’t really fix that either. They just raise the volume of the same feeling. It’s still the same emotional temperature, just louder. No real shift in weight or direction.
The vocals are buried pretty deep. At first, I thought they were almost background noise, but they stayed like that the whole time. You either accept that, or you start wishing something would step forward for once.
There are moments where you think something is about to change, a riff hints at moving somewhere else, or a rhythm tightens up, but it usually slips back into the same pattern pretty quickly.
I don’t think it’s badly made. It just doesn’t really push itself anywhere. It’s consistent, maybe too consistent. Everything stays in the same emotional lane from start to finish.
By the end, it doesn’t feel like it built up or resolved anything. More like you were sitting in one long mood that never really turned into something else. Try it yourself!
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