To Crown All Befoulment strives to take the throne for unremitting nihilism and sonic annihilation of 2020 with it’s infernal, terror-inducing, and lethal combination of black metal, death metal, and bestial/war metal.
Astonishing twirling sounds and gusts of psych commotion envelope the splendid and absolutely shaking tracks on each through and through.
The album is heavy! Sometimes that’s in a musical sense, sometimes in an emotional sense, but mostly it’s heavy in both senses.
Aara honestly sounds like no other band I’ve ever heard, despite some similar elements to a few groups.
…rough, energetic, profoundly moving, yet subtle, magnificent and significant like a perfect work of art.
…there is a ray of hope in the black metal inspired character of the Microsoft exclusive game Bleeding Edge… Nidhoggr!
…typical descriptors such as “melodic” do not even begin to describe the immaculate, celestial magnificence of UNREQVITED’s God-tier blackened cinematic atmosphere.
…metal-adjacent, and utterly, mind-blowingly impossible to describe, though I will attempt to do just that in this feature article.
…all signs point to it being musically diverse and very competently written.