Band:	Beautality
Album:	Einfallen: A Tale Ov Torment & Triumph
Style:	Atmospheric black metal, Progressive black metal
Release date:	March 16, 2015
A review by:	ScreamingSteelUS

01. Einfallen
02. Doppelgänger
03. The Devil's Elixir
04. From The Abyss
05. Messias
06. Unreality

It took me a long-ass time to review this album, mostly because it's a long-ass album. To put things in perspective, Einfallen: A Tale Ov Torment & Triumph is more than twice as long as everything Minor Threat ever recorded. "That's quite a daunting task, Steel," I hear you say. "How ever did you manage to listen to it enough to write about it?" Simple, friend. I have no life.

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.