RUNEMAGICK

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

third album following 2017's reformation sees the long-running doom/death metal entity delivering masterfully refined and near-perfectly balanced record, moving away from one-dimensional genre approach and placing greater emphasis on naturally shifting song structures, allowing riffs not only to weigh down but to evolve organically, reintroducing measured bursts of speed, harmonious nuances, and clearer compositional framework, making music to engage more without losing its sense of heaviness, while Nicklas’ signature vocal retains its rough character yet blends more cohesively into the overall sound frame, with lyrics exploring broader existential themes, reflecting on human transience, decay of civilization, and symbolic memory, resulting in a cohesive, mature, and compelling opus; digipak edition is limited to the first press