TRIPTYKON

Release Year: 2014
Artist Origin: SWI
Style: obscure orchestral doom black metal

solid as a granite, impressive sophomore longplay by genius Swiss four-piece proves them sticking even more precisely to a very personal, characteristic, hand-crafted model of sound, winning over the listener via vastly varied and strikingly heavy episodes, powered by limitless, macabre, doom-laden darkness, yet music here is more focused and direct, perhaps capturing with its multifaceted vibe, comparing to the debut unleashed four years ago; among nine oppressing hymns of gloom and despair there is a constant struggle between the minimalist and the complex, dressed in quite contemporary clothes, where each note radiates spiritual tension, cosmic sorrow, and apocalyptic beauty, uniting grief with transcendent power, and the winner is dedicated, open-minded connoisseur, who knows the roots but never ignores the progress