Review: BÅKÜ – Soma
“Soma” moves like a slow tide of ash and memory, equal parts meditative and suffocating. It doesn’t always find its direction, but when it does, BÅKÜ sound like a band discovering the beauty hidden inside exhaustion.
Tag: Post Metal
Review: Heretoir – Solastalgia
“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.
Review: Lera – Rêverie
“Rêverie” is a debut that leans into shadows and whispers. It’s an atmospheric journey rather than a revelation. Lera emerge from Sardinia with music that balances the crushing weight of doom and post-metal with the fragile breath of post-rock and ambient drift. There is beauty …
Review: The Great Sea – The Noble Art Of Desolation
The Noble Art of Desolation is a debut that trades fire for atmosphere, weaving blackened riffs and layered melancholy into a fog-drenched whole. At times uneven and weighed down by pacing lulls, it nonetheless carries sincerity.
Review: Lethvm – Winterreise
Lethvm give the listener a daring, frostbitten experiment in atmosphere and aggression, a record that shifts between lurching doom, blackened edges, post-metal breadth, and occasional post-hardcore unrest. “Winterreise” doesn’t always land every twist, but many of its risks sing in the silent cold it carves …