RUNEMAGICK

Release Year: 2023
Artist Origin: SWE
Style: obscure menacing death doom metal

without any creative delay [2004], on their seventh full-length Swedish entity leans toward somewhat more extreme form of doom/death, faithfully continuing their underground direction while focusing more on a cohesive atmosphere than on the impact of individual tracks, with more thoughtfully structured compositions where time-stretched motifs create grim, almost meditative state, enriched by unexpected fragmentary ideas, like Eastern-tinged passages and subtly integrated acoustic elements, all while maintaining their recognizable approach, where vocals are delivered in a rough, unpolished, and organically repulsive manner, thus thirteen track, 73 minute long album functions as a steadily and fiercely bleak emotional expression of despair, making it a worthy addition to any devoted fan of harsher side of the genre; recent Dutch digipak edition comes with a remastered sound and new design