A crescent mind, an anomaly
Filled with shadows from the past
A flickering light emerged their heed
With every staggering haul fulfilling their call
A boiling fire seeps from the heart
Condoning phantasies
A bolting gaze into the abyss brings forth an old reflection of the self
Takes hold; Whispers of war
Altering state
Tearing the veil
All that I know - instinctual
All that I know - visions of mine
All that I know - one of us will fall
All that I know - from echoes through time
Defying dogma, melt the stars
Anger seeking justice
Bleeding from hate makes the mark
Bleeding from hate shows your art
Krigssti
Krigssti
Blod gjeng i arv
Krigssti
Krigssti
Tearing the veil
All that I know - one of us will fall
All that I know - from echoes through time
credits
from SPIRALS,
released September 2, 2022
Music written and produced by VÅDE.
Kjetil Alver Lund - Vocals
Elias Solberg Skjellum - Guitars
Sander Batuhan Tesdal - Bass
Andreas Skorpe Sjøen - Drums
Artwork by Johan J. Bakken
Engineered, mixed and mastered by Andreas Skorpe Sjøen.
The technicality woven into every track is dizzying, especially considering the guitars and drums. Songwriting and arrangements are quite impressive, with intricacies allowing for some very dense structures to be built and unraveled without sounding unruly
A strength with this band album is the balance they strike between melodic guitar components and ones that are strictly dissonant. When those two ends converge, particularly highlighted alongside a drop / break in the track, the tone is sour Lorenzo
Californian quartet defining themselves as Sci-Fi black metal, maybe due to cosmic and interstellar topics, sounding like blackened death metal too ("The Maw"). It's a well-balanced melodic black metal album, with some fast-paced tracks and nice rhythmic transitions reminding me of Swiss band Celtic Frost (e.g. Terminal Odyssey). In other words not overly dominated by drum speed and also not sounding as extreme or as raw as some BM can be. sachavonkarl74