Déluge - Æther review
Band: | Déluge |
Album: | Æther |
Style: | Black metal, Post hardcore |
Release date: | September 2015 |
01. Avalanche
02. Appât [feat. Helene Muesser]
03. Mélas | Khōlé [feat. Neige]
04. Naufrage
05. Houle
06. Klarträumer [feat. Vincent Legac]
07. Vide
08. Hypoxie [feat. Helena and Vincent Legac]
09. Bruine
Déluge really like blastbeats. They like to blasturbate right in yo' ear hole. But what makes Aether an interesting listen is what's going on afterwards.
Déluge, a black metal meets post-hardcore French act love to put the hammer down and go balls out blasting away. Every song on this album features a Mach 4 outburst. Or two. Drumming and trem-picking as fast as they can while the lead singer shouts away. Hey, blasturbating can be fun. I like the occasional blasturbation session and I imagine you might as well. And I dig some of the beats the drummer comes up with when "braking" from pounding to more mid-tempo.
Then there is the change up. In addition to punishing their instruments, the album also sees track just give way to reverb, clean guitar sparsely played over the sound of rain. It almost sounds like they shifted into a Disintegration-era The Cure b-side. Sometimes these interludes are augmented by a clean sung vocal harmony (bonjour, Neige) or some beautiful piano melodies, and on occasion birds chirping softly in the background. Yes, you read that correctly. Birds chirping softly.
The two extremes play well with one another. For starters there is something vaguely almost hypnotically relaxing about the shimmering effect of their full-tilt follies, and the quieter moments are definitely of the kind that can delightfully lull you to some zen sleep. You know, before the distortion and screaming kicks in again.
My favorite track on the album, also known as the song to check out if you want to see what I am babbling about, would be the nine minute "Klartraumer".
Biggest drawback of the album is the songs seem to get longer as it goes on. The first half, up to and through "Klartraumer" seems to go by quickly. I was enjoying it well enough the first pass through, looked down to see I was already well into the fourth track, "Naufrage". But the final three songs just seem to drag a bit? they are more of the same, only after the album has already peaked. Perhaps it could have been edited or trimmed a bit.
Still, an enjoyable listen that I'd recommend checking out if the description piqued the slightest bit of your interest.
Rating breakdown
Performance: | 7 |
Songwriting: | 7 |
Originality: | 8 |
Production: | 8 |
| Written on 06.01.2016 by BitterCOld has been officially reviewing albums for MetalStorm since 2009. |
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