Beautality - Einfallen: A Tale Ov Torment & Triumph - review
Beautality - Einfallen: A Tale Ov Torment & Triumph - review
Band
Beautality Release date
March 16, 2015 Tracklist
01. Einfallen02. Doppelgänger
03. The Devil's Elixir
04. From The Abyss
05. Messias
06. Unreality
A review by
ScreamingSteelUS June 01, 2015
At an hour and 46 minutes in length, I have to insist that mastermind David Ravengarde has accidentally recorded two albums. This bastard dwarfs even Beautality's 70+-minute debut, and it outlives Reign In Blood nearly four times over. Unwieldy though it may be, however, that kind of magnitude shared across so few songs allows for unprecedented amounts of progression and amplitude. Each song tells its own story; each can delve deeply into a vault of sounds and journeys. And delve it does; rarely does a band's name describe its music so well. Beautality's aesthetic is a somber, sobering one, but it is enchantingly beautiful nonetheless, and it still does not spare the volcanic volume.
Most impressive of all is the fact that, throughout the incredibly lengthy odyssey, Einfallen: A Tale Ov Torment & Triumph never once breaks character; it never once drops its characteristic dismal, grungy twang, carrying it forth through realms of black, death, thrash, doom, and post-metal. Calling to mind at various times artists like Intronaut, Type O Negative, and even Death, Beautality spans a massive array of styles (as well it should, to remain interesting over the course of such a long album). The frequent shifts between freezing blackness and warm gloominess make for an album that is dynamic without being too jagged or confusing.
To offset the sizeable temporal cost of listening to this album, I'll keep my review short and sweet. If you can muster the patience for it, you should plumb the depths of Einfallen and introduce yourself to a magnificent world of forlorn atmospherics.
Rating breakdown
| Performance: | 8 |
| Songwriting: | 9 |
| Originality: | 8 |
| Production: | 7 |
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I will check this band out, sounds interesting
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Hour and 46 minutes, you say? Uber long, you say? Pfft! Check out Lascaille's Shroud sometime. His second album, from last year, it's just over 2 hours. Oh, and it's a masterpiece too.  
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Posts: 6693 Written by psykometal on 01.06.2015 at 02:09 Oh, I couldn't possibly forget that... I think it was the last thing I listened to in the whole Awards this year just because it was so long. But you are correct, it was fantastic.
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Posts: 6101 Written by ScreamingSteelUS on 01.06.2015 at 02:11 Oh good. You do know LS. Usually I can't stand such uberlong forays into sonic soundscapes, but Brett manages to keep me captivated all the way through. Normally I'd overlook this due to that kind of length, but I'm intrigued by your review, so I'll definitely be sure to check it out when my data re-ups on my phone in a few days.
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Posts: 6693 Written by Hex_Omega on 01.06.2015 at 14:26 I'm not familiar with Entropia, but I don't find it very similar to Summoning. Enslaved isn't a bad comparison, I suppose, but now that I think of it, this actually reminds me a bit of Grey Skies Fallen with some Midnight Odyssey thrown in.
---- "Earth is small and I hate it" - Lum Invader I'm the Agent of Steel.
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Posts: 3470 Written by psykometal on 01.06.2015 at 02:09 Same with both Midnight Odyssey albums.
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