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Trve Kvlt #17
Gotta Rank’em All: Every Sylosis Album Ranked
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For some reason that goes beyond my comprehension, Sylosis doesn’t get the love it deserves from us—the media, the critics, the tastemakers. It’s baffling. So I’m here to try to make amends. Let’s go. Enough sleeping on greatness. It’s time to give credit where it’s long overdue.
Loneshore – Nothing Left to Deconstruct
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Brazil is known for its Death and Power Metal, but how much for its Post-Metal? Granted, this is more of a Prog and Post mix, but Loneshore is only two albums into its career and already getting signed by big labels. That’s why Nothing Left to Deconstruct inspires a certain confidence in me. It feels as if all the parts here are too big to fail, but I’ve also seen bands with as much potential crash and burn faster than a kite in a rainstorm. Optimism has never been my strong suit.
Erdve – Epigrama
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Are you an expert on experimental Hardcore? I thought so. Then you can imagine the level of confusion I was in when Erdve‘s Epigrama hit me with such an enigmatic artwork and overall musical proposal. This is probably the first or second album we’ve gotten fully in Lithuanian. They could be singing about their breakfast, and we’d be like “this is the sickest thing ever.” Anyway, there’s nothing cute about this release, so let’s try to navigate it without much emotional damage, shall we?
Releases that almost fell through the cracks
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These are some albums or EPs I almost forgot about. What can I say? Promos get buried by other promos in the endless waterfall of emails we need to sort out every single day. Mercy, please (but don’t stop, ok?)
Panopticon – Det Hjemsøkte Hjertet
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I didn’t see this one coming. Panopticon is arguably the project to beat in Black and Folk Metal. Even though Laurentian Blues left me a bit skeptical, every album since Roads to the North has been close to a masterpiece. The ups and downs that Lunn likes to put us through make Det Hjemsøkte Hjertet enigmatic and unpredictable even before the first listen. But let’s get to it, shall we?
Astriferous – Atavistic Unraveling
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It’s been some time since I dared to return to the oversaturated nightmare that old school Death Metal has become. Astriferous has at least a name that indicates the band feels serious and comfortable in its corpse skin. Atavistic Unraveling should have enough tentacles for everyone. I’m just worried about the adrenaline dump this might cause me if it’s too old school.
Ennui – Qroba
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I had never thought that my ideology in life might have a name. Yet the truth is that each of us carries a personal worldview—one that inevitably finds expression in different aspects of life, including the art we create. Here, this personal ideology is reflected in Qroba (Vanishment), the latest album by the Georgian funeral doom band Ennui. Qroba is one of those albums that questions the very concept of existence. Even through its title, it suggests both disappearance and the possibility of never coming into being at all.
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