your tale is not over yet, it’s easy to go astray, stones fall narrowing the pathway. this is the place, you always wanted to reach. now that you are here, what is in your mind? first in a whisper, then growing louder. stand and rise against the tide. ruler of my destiny, compelling me to move, the ocean that hides inside is the root of all desires. you know what is like to feel the rush of life, boiling streams that flows, inside light that glows. trading certainly for a thousand possibilities. burning will to live. i am trying so hard to find what i lost, thirsty for the truth, longing for my youth. i can see clear finally, nothing will stand against the ocean in me. winning the fight against deterioration, transforming the exhausted soul with the instruments of my ascension.
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Abigail Williams has had a weird career with hiatuses and lineup changes, but they have finally perfected their sound on Walk Beyond the Dark. This album has such a refreshing and natural feeling that makes it one of the top atmospheric black metal albums of recent years. Ryan
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Gaerea's first release of "Unsettling Whispers" was in 2018, and since, they dared define a "black metal" niche of their own, they dared to walk a new path and stir shit up a bit in the realm of BM, this album is a masterpiece and a milestone proving that it can be done, provided the band can pull it off, and they did, oh they did! Gloomy, dark, post-BM sludgy whatever, it's Gaerea, and this one belongs in my BC collection, the end. sachavonkarl74
Tokyo band contrast black metal's brutal complexity with shoegaze's abyssal grandeur, resulting in an LP that feels crushing, yet infinite. Bandcamp New & Notable Aug 24, 2022
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Arkhtinn's demo work culminates in VI. Each of the two tracks manage to surpass almost any of their predecessors. VI's black metal track embodies the cold-sweat inducing knowing of an imminent disaster - say the panic while approaching a cosmic gate to a dimension filled with grim horrors. II is the official sonic equivalent to what is found on the other side. Hellish, and nothing but sublime. It cannot be a coincidence that the follow-up to this demo is named 'First Catastrophe'.
Arkh10/10. David Fischer