Sedate drumming, melancholy and often repetitive riffing, simple chord structures are all beautifully done, and all help the purpose of the album, which is to highlight the raw pain of the vocals.
I think the payoff for letting a difficult album have the time necessary to gel with you is often worth it.
It’s like water skiing behind a speedboat down I-94 into Detroit. Strange, almost unfathomable, but undoubtedly a good time.
On this release, Kaliya can run you down with speed, rumble over you with power, and often does both simultaneously. Behold the brutal velocity!
…a melodic/raw black metal duo from Anchorage, and I believe their setting is extremely important to how their music seems so effortless, when talking about how coldness and organic nature of their sound.
“Nuages orageux” examines that moment when the clouds have gathered and we welcome the coming storm.
What will be unexpected is the utter anguished beauty of Dikter om döden.
The album is an exceptionally intense listen, certainly in the running for the best and most visceral release in this style this year.
Please don’t sleep on this Album Of The Year contender from some of our most promising local talent.
Dissonance and psychedelia and brutality..oh, my…