Cistvaen - At Light's Demise
| Release date: | 5 April 2024 |
| Style: | Atmospheric black metal |
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31 have it 11 want it |
01. At Light's Demise
02. Cessation Of Hope
03. The Epitaph
04. Time The Mournful
05. Bleak House
06. Silver Birch
07. The Blind Observer
Top 20 albums of 2024: 14
02. Cessation Of Hope
03. The Epitaph
04. Time The Mournful
05. Bleak House
06. Silver Birch
07. The Blind Observer
Top 20 albums of 2024: 14
Review
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8.6
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Rating: 8.6 |
As stated by John Steinbeck in The Winter Of Our Discontent, "It’s so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone", and this is true for Cistvaen; here, they offer atmospheric black in the darkest of forms with At Light's Demise. Read more ›› |
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Comments
Comments: 8
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| AndyMetalFreak A Nice Guy Contributor Posts: 5301  |
What a wonderful album, I was kinda expecting something dark and grim and a bit more blackened, but this is so beautifully melancholic. It's like a combo of DSBM and death doom rather than atmospheric black imo, the guitar work is mesmerizing, there's so many beautiful melodies, and it's such an incredibly passionate performance. Edit: This is officially my first 9 rated album this year, one hell of a release!
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| Sidney's Phone Posts: 24  |
Written by AndyMetalFreak on 08.04.2024 at 10:04 DSBM + Death/Doom? I'm going to check this out!
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| musclassia Staff Posts: 7621  |
I do hear doomy passages (more in the earlier parts of some songs), but it is perhaps more so atmo-black/blackgaze to my ears, particularly in the latter stages of the songs that have a lot of dainty tremolo melodies. Still, having those extra doomy elements do add a certain something to it compared with more straight atmo-black
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| glizda00 Posts: 12  |
Beautiful compositions. I pick my jaw up off the floor after the first listen. I wish for more such wonderful debuts.
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| Ch'ti Posts: 19  |
I'm not a big fan of atmospheric black metal but this one touch me deeply.
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| Tel3tubby Posts: 25  |
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| The Melting Snow Posts: 673  |
Been a long time since I had a goosebumpy "oh why'd you do that" moment in a song... the build-up and eventual explosion in The Epitaph does that. I was listening to it in the office and it caught me off guard. I keep listening to that song over and over again so haven't really finished the album yet, but i'm loving what i've heard so far.
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| tintinb Posts: 2022 |
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