FÖRTVIVLAN – AUSTERE LABYRINTH


Straight to your face and concrete. Really far from reckless experimentation and Depressive Suicidal Black Metal's traditional schemes. "Austere Labyrinth" represent the most significant change in the style of the project Förtvivlan: an implementation of an expressive search reconciled with intelligence in composing. The road of depression leads the band to a need for innovations and avant-garde, both moving away from the old school heaviness of "Failure. Depression. Suicide" both from the Post / Gaze contemporary clichés: having set aside synths and acoustical sounds, the Dutch band opts for the explicit violence of Happy Days and Lifelover, revealing their influences, especially in certain songs. The synthesizers are emulated in the title track "Austere Labyrinth" (the closest representation of "Abigail"), while the acoustic instruments are emulated in "Empty Echoes", the continuation of the classic Swedish Depressive "Mental Dialogue Center". The technical basis and both musical and empirical experience contribute to the delivery of a valuable and engaging work, which produces a small revolution in DSBM: songs from 3:00 to 4:00 minutes instead of the traditional 8:00 to 10:00! The band offers a tight, fresh and bright variety of DSBM: a wake up call in the world of Metal, which is currently too weak to be felt, relegated in the underground, which also would be helpful to hundreds of bands that keep churning out (in the true sense of the word) copies of 'Det Som Var engang', maybe rigged with some low-fi filter that would turn up even the most inveterate user of Instagram's nose. We can't say that "Austere Labyrinth" is the masterpiece of the century, that students would study on their Asimov's futuristic electronic books. The definition of a masterpiece, which in the late nineties was a must, today is stifled by a heavy anachronism and a common law of modern metal that doesn't accept any compromise: on the one hand, patterns that are old centuries, on the other hand, crossover pulled beyond belief.

RATING: 7/10
-Mørke-

Translator: -Edoardo Napoli-



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