Totalselfhatred - Solitude (EN)
Band: Totalselfhatred (FIN)
Genre: Depressive Black Metal
Label: Osmose Productions
Album title: Solitude
Duration: 41:29
Releasedate: 27.04.2018

It is a kind of severity in the wind once the first tones of
"Solitude" arise. Totalselfhatred wander through the darkest
landscapes of Black Metal and the own soul on their third album.
Therefore the Finns take almost seven years to portray this
desolation in all its facets.
The severity in the
introducing "Solitude MMXIII" is characterised by depressing pianos
and an accoustic guitar that slowly appropriates the listener. The
band comes cravenly out of the hideout til a musical storm is
breaking loose. The drums burst out powered by disrupting screams
while the whizzing guitars like to overtake the despairing shouts.
Totalselfhatred often take the time to let their music
envolve. In this process they also reduce the sound like in "Hallow"
to the absolute minimum and only the light drums with bassline and
dreamy guitar riffs remain. However, these quiet periods can change
abruptly all the time: The band storms up again without any warnings
whereas the vocalist A. shouts against the inner uncertainness.
In the end the power of the vocalist and the band is similarly
gone in the song "Nyctophilia". The Finns walk slowly on that path
with carried drums and laid back guitar riffs where they previously
left a wake of devastation. There are again the heavy tones of the
piano that lets the band come to a stop.
Conlusion: Actually
the spring is a release date out of place for such an album but when
one looks outside these days where the world paints a rainy picture
over the wide forests – indeed "Solitude" is the appropriate
background music.
Rating: 8/10
Recommendations:
Hallow, Black Infinity
01. Solitude MMXIII
02. Cold Numbness
03. Hollow
04.
Black Infinity
05. Nyctophilia
A. - Vocals, Guitars, Keyboards
C. - Vocals, Guitars
J. -
Guitars, Vocals
N. - Bass
I. - Drums, Vocals
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Author: Lupus
Translator: Dine