OBSEQUIAE Aria Of Vernal Tombs LP

OBSEQUIAE Aria Of Vernal Tombs LP

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(20 Buck Spin)
*** This is a new and unplayed item, direct from the CRUCIAL BLAST shop. ***

DESCRIPTION FROM CRUCIAL BLAST:
     Back in stock on CD, and now also available on vinyl.
     An utterly stunning new album from this Midwestern outfit, which is essentially the work of one man, Tanner Anderson, whom I had previously known as the guiding force behind the excellent, washed-out funereal doom of Celestiial. With his current band Obsequiae, Anderson has been exploring a combination of black metal aesthetics and medieval music that was first heard on the excellent 2011 album Suspended In The Brume Of Eos, but with his latest Aria Of Vernal Tombs , Obsequiae’s sound is even more finely crafted, producing one of the year's most impressive new albums that reaches beyond the edges of black metal towards something entirely unique.
     It's a real knock-out of an album, with that medieval music influence woven even more seamlessly with the band's more aggressive aspects. It opens with the gorgeous medieval folk of "Ay Que Por Muy Gran Fremosura" before unleashing the folk-flecked, frosty blast of "Autumnal Pyre"; those ancient European musical elements are combined perfectly with the heavier, rather classical-sounding metal that Anderson employs, and it's really rather unlike anything coming from the more folk-influenced end of modern black metal. As "Pyre" unfolds its regal melody and thunderous metallic hooks, it hits a similar nerve as some of Drudkh's stuff, but the overall atmosphere here is quite different. All eleven of these songs that comprise Aria are carefully arranged mini-epics that move from that sprawling, majestic blackened metal to fields of atmospheric ambience and rumbles of distant thunder, glimpses of female choral voices adrift somewhere in the distance, the songs flowing organically from one to the next. It's all so damn catchy, too, even as there's a definite proggy element to all of this (just listen to the track "Anlace And Heart"), which you can hear in the complexity of most of these songs and the sweeping guitar shred that soars over the whole thing. While Anderson is behind much of this, he's assisted by harpist Vicente La Camera Mariño and Nechochwen drummer Andrew Della Cagna, who each lend their strengths to Aria's dark elegance; that harp is especially intoxicating, and when the album slips softly into the instrumental tracks "L'amour Dont Sui Espris" and "Des Oge Mais Quér' Eu Trobar" with their reverb-drenched harp strings shimmering in the dying sunlight, the shift in sound is absolutely perfect. Such a great album, capped off with the rousing, triumphant heaviness of "Orphic Rites Of The Mystic" which is about as good a prog metal song as you're going to hear this year. Highly recommended, the new LP version of Aria Of Vernal Tombs comes in a gorgeous jacket with a printed inner sleeve.   © CRUCIAL BLAST
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