This album is an absolute banger. The riffs are especially groovy this time, the vocals are amazing, and the overall thing is supercatchy. If I'd have to list one downside, it's that the mix is so bass-heavy that the sound only truely comes into it's right when listened on good headphones or extremely good speakers. On anything less it can sound like the bass drowns the rest of the music out. 9/10 Buzzario
ATONE is music I’d put near the climax of my revenge film. Like the protagonist is walking toward the antagonist, dragging a baseball bat with nails hammered in it, or a webbed chain, or a piece of rebar with a chunk of concrete attached and is about to demolish their enemy in the most batshit way possible. justanoldgod
A foreboding black-doom metal dirge, meditating on a dark world caked in ash, resulting from all the Earth’s nuclear arsenal detonating at once. Bandcamp Album of the Day Jun 14, 2018
Brooding black metal on Vendetta records, Svartmálm slow the genre’s core ingredients and add bracing emotional heft. Bandcamp New & Notable Jul 20, 2018
“a sonic, cinematic epic that depicts the existential horror of Stalinist Russia”
This is a 2017 record, and by sheer chance I ran into it not too long after seeing a recent movie about Gareth Jones and the Soviet famine.
A two-part epic with ambient elements, a strange “ISIS+Thou” feeling, tons of details, and occasional manic screams that wouldn’t sound out of place in a The Body record. Alice M.