Band:	Verwüstung
Album:	Beyond The Watercolor Sunset, We Feel New Life
Style:	Shoegaze, Ambient black metal, Drone doom metal
Release date:	April 11, 2011
Guest review by:	Boxcar Willy

01. Beyond The Watercolor Sunset, We Feel New Life

Wow.

Not much more can be said*, Verwüstung's ?Watercolor? is that? Wow. Listening takes you on almost a journey; it's emotional, melodic, heavy, dark, atmospheric, ambient and everything in between.

You wake up; it's early? too early, just after dawn. It's the middle of fall, the air is cool and the ground is frosted, you're just about to fall back asleep again when you hear shouting, fighting. You know what's going on and you try to hide from it, you put the pillow over your ears to try and block out the noise, but to no avail. The yelling turns to screaming, you can hear things breaking, glass shattering on the floor, paintings and heirlooms being thrown up at the wall, and then? Silence. A single warm tear flows down the side of your face onto your pillow.

That's this album in a nutshell. A calm fall morning, erupts into the worst feeling of your life. The intro meanders slowly through highs and lows, the synth begins to carry you into the world of Verwüstung, the sample (taken from the film "Dolores Claiborne") begins to show the inner turmoil. It sets the mood for what you are about to receive.

As if being pushed over the edge, the tremolo starts, searing, tearing, ripping through the wall of ambiance. The riff annihilates the warm, fuzzy ambiance. The hate filled riff carries on like a neglected child exploding with the rage of being overlooked and pushed aside. The riffs pans out? the intense burst of rage has drained all the energy? the song fades into a ballad of acoustic guitar and ambiance. Almost like a lullaby the music flows and flows until, once more, it explodes into a fury of noise. The sound envelops you, as if standing in an open beach, just as a tsunami breaks at the shore.

But as soon as it arrives, it's gone again. And we, the listeners, are left in awe.


*as it turns out, a lot more could be said.