“Think of You” moves between brightness and ruin, refusing to settle for harshness without melody or melody without edge. Its structural familiarity sometimes dulls surprise, but its passion and refined voice keep it compelling.
“Solastalgia” feels like the year’s slow descent into silence, with fallen leaves, fading light, and the ache of something ending. It may waver in pacing, but its sincerity and sense of place make it linger long after the air turns cold.
Blackbraid “III” strikes like a ritual lived out loud, a blackened odyssey that binds ancestral echoes. Its greatest strength is how it never lets the listener settle in its tension and its haunting voice.
“Asservis par l’espoir” is a bleak and ambitious debut that balances dissonant black metal with moments of fragile melody, all carried by anguished French vocals that cut like a knife.
“Candela” is an album that never hides its scars, a raw collision of blackened crust and emotional upheaval that claws at you rather than invites. It falters in pacing and clarity, but its honesty and ferocity keep it burning long after the noise fades.
“Disse Fugle Får Ingen At Se” may not carve new territory, but it stakes ground firmly within it. For listeners drawn to the fragile beauty in decay, to black metal that doesn’t always roar but sometimes whispers, this is a work worth witnessing.
“Catechesis” is an interesting and occasionally powerful expression of blackened death metal, but it is uneven, overlong in parts, and its ambition sometimes obscures rather than illumines. Fans of complex death metal may find value in its highs, but its lows remind that potential doesn’t always equal execution.
“The Fractal Ouroboros” is a furious and meditative ritual, where political defiance and blackened savagery intertwine with moments of sorrowful ambience. Exhausting in its density yet commanding in vision, it lingers like smoke after fire – uncompromising, cyclical, and unforgettable.
Carach Angren reveal their latest single, “The Resurrection of Kariba,” from the upcoming EP The Cult of Kariba, out on October 17th via Season of Mist.
“Nocturne” drifts between shadow and revelation, its folk roots stretched into darker corridors without always finding a lasting spark. Haunting in mood but hesitant in execution, it lingers like mist, evocative yet never fully consuming.