Genre: Depressive Black Metal
Label: Vacula Productions
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The teachings bestowed by seminal albums like Katatonia's “Sounds of Decay” and October Tide's “Rain without End” are still absolutely alive and bands like Griverion demonstrate it with this great album released in October 2020 by Vacula Productions! “The Call of the Noose” is a dark, catacomb-like journey capable of exploring the most hidden corners of our psyche, bringing scary demons and disturbing thoughts to the surface. Sadomaster, a multi-instrumentalist supported here by the drummer Gibil, expresses in notes his most intimate reflections related to themes such as death, social self-isolation, depression and melancholy that belong to him and from which he draws inspiration, making the listener participate with absolute delicacy. "A Dialogue with no One" with its obsessive arpeggio and a narrated voice on the verge of despair that creeps into the soul, creating discomfort that spreads inside like a raging river; “Deathchant” has a melancholy, depressing riffing, which develops with a splendid melody, sad and visceral; "A Pact with Hades" is a hymn to the world of the underworld and its divine ruler, the vocal lines, (Italian and English), are harrowing and dark and blend well with the mood created by the guitars; the sung in Italian of "Lucente Ululato" is engaging and the heaviness of the musical part amplifies the desperate scream that external in every single note. “Journey to Sadness and Beyond” alternate parts of a clear old-style Black Metal matrix, with others that recall the sounds of the early Forgotten Tombs; listening to "Void Paranoia (The Noose is Calling)" is an authentic journey to the gallows that our own life has reserved for us after a summary self-trial ... .. Effectively the final part composed of an obscure melody! “The Existence and Her Sunset” celebrates the descent into the deep being, a journey that everyone should undertake to be able to resurrect in a new guise of Light whose blinding presence is intrinsically part of the darkness itself.
Fulvio G.
