XASTHUR

Release Year: 2020
Artist Origin: USA
Style: obscure oppressing depressive black metal

this hauntingly intense journey through despair and nihilism, showcasing Malefic's raw, emotional vocals and dissonant guitar arrangements that create a chaotic yet mesmerizing vibe, comes from the most productive era of this unique one-man band in depressive black metal [2004], often named as the most significant recording to express Xasthur's misanthropic reality with its cold, disturbing vibe, proving the geniality of music might be in emotion and atmosphere, and not just in how skillful in performing qualities you are - simple but effective riff-based song structures are followed by mesmerizing keyboard lines and trademark screech on the edge of schizophrenia, so total darkness is the perfect medium for its consumption; recent British gatefold sleeve double black 180g vinyl re-issue comes with Reflecting Hateful Energy and Graveland At Pagan Samhain cover as bonuses on side D