“I I“, the aptly-titled and comprehensively majestic second album from BLOOD ABSCISSION, fortifies the veiled project as a major new player in the increasingly overcrowded field of contemporary Black Metal. A week before official release, the mysterious entity reveals the title in its entirety.
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While the sense of perpetual forward motion and cascades of opulent melodies from outstanding 2023 debut “I” remain, the band here raise the bar: combining surges of raw intensity with stretches of otherworldly calm, all enveloped by tighter songwriting that hits with greater emotional force. Veiled in enigma and incorporating a Brutalist visual identity, BLOOD ABSCISSION‘s “I I” is a breathtakingly powerful and visionary journey through epic, transcendent Black Metal.
The five tracks comprising “I I” are a showcase for first-rate symphonic layering, riffing of multifaceted power, steamrolling rhythms, and sublimated vocal fury with a wider sweep of feelings than before. Produced with crystalline clarity for the ultimate drive, this is an elegiac, intoxicating and compulsive odyssey through unseen inner/outer universes.
Amidst the shroud of eternal night, where shadows and light dissolve into insignificance, a new soundscape emerges. An aural entity weaving chaos and purity into an ethereal hymn of resilience. BLOOD ABSCISSION’s namelessness carves melodies of erupting rage and transcendental calm, capturing the collective pain that unites us all.
Each composition is a descent into the abyss of mind, where darkness sears and transforms, where fleeting moments of serenity are born from the fire of suffering. Melodies coil and writhe like serpents in the void, unearthing ancient emotions buried beneath the ever-present silence. Here, the unyielding embrace of mortality gives way to an eternal song – a journey that fractures reality and rebuilds it through the raw power of sound.
Through a haze of nihilism, the music transcends the boundaries of conventional form, speaking a language that defies both reason and tradition. This is a symphony for the lost and the forgotten, where the notes themselves seem to carry the weight of unseen universes. Each sonic texture calls to those who wander unseen and frees them from the chains of reality. Music to unbind the spirit, to navigate twisted paths, and to re-ignite the flame within. United in pain, we step into the abyss – not as mere individuals, but as a collective force seeking meaning within the chaos, finding a voice in the silence between the stars.
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