Description

White vinyl with gatefold cover

The opening chords of Archives Of Doubt paint a dark tonal pattern, and when the drums enter the riffs evolve into an adventurous, layered experience akin to what might expect of an Opeth track. Wandering, dark, delightful. After a few minutes the blast beats kick in, and the style transforms into a more technical black metal brutality one might expect of Dark Funeral or 1349. And it all gets better from there. Voice Of A Dead Boy haunts with its creepy, textural black/death riffing, especially the light lead touches over the vocal verse. As Fear Changes Sides begins with a pretty, melodic interview before erupting back into this band’s penchant for extremely well crafted chaos. If you couldn’t guess by this point, there is no weakness to the album. Asakku’s vocals straddle the line between death and black metal, and provide the perfect counterbalance to the more adventurous, wandering compositions below. The production is perfect, all instruments distinct, the bass highlighting these amazing guitar riffs perfectly, just enough low end atmosphere. The musicianship is top notch, but what’s even better is the obvious attention to detail that was spent planning the songs. It couldnt have been a better debut album so you owe it to yourself to track this down at any cost.

Track list:
1. Archives Of Doubt
2. There Is A Piece Of God In All Of My Scars
3. Borderline Vanity
4. Voice Of A Dead Boy
5. To Dare Not Speak Its Name
6. As Fear Changes Sides
7. Venus Dementia
8. Aenigma
9. Dead Not Dreaming