black metal
An exceedingly great atmospheric black metal album with only two tracks – Par Delà les Aubes and Silence – Les Avatars du Vide is a terrific, majestic piece of work. Relevant to the genre as its groundwork stable musical density comprehends a virulent, sagacious, latent expansion of harmonies, the music contemplates over an obscure abyss of relentless nothingness the ostensibly patient elements of its isolated melancholy that captures the melodic colors of its pure and symptomatic intensity. In between the gracious calamities and afflictions of calmness and aggressiveness, the overall style of the artist certainly showcases a very audacious, promising and original style, whose discreet conflagration relies solely on a ferocious and precise ability of musical embodiment, able to truly understand the soul, the boundaries and the anatomy of the genre.
With a very mordacious lucidity, the album explores in a profoundly intimate – but at the same time increasingly hostile, abrasive and direct – gesture the preambles of a sincerely harmonious description. At the same time, though, the melodies can be described as accessible and simple, and they touch the general sentimental grounds of the soul with sincerity and grace.
The album does not displace nor dismiss the conventional commonalities of the genre; as a matter of fact, this artifices are used as very useful and satisfactory artistic tools, that deepens the lenient harmonies in between the paradox of its rhythmic dynamism. Despite the fact that the work does have some predictability – as it does not explore too much further new creative horizons –, the album remains loyal to the principles of the genre without being redundant, monotonous or ordinary. So, atmospheric black metal enthusiasts certainly can hear Les Avatars du Vide without any chance of becoming disappointed.
While the album cannot be considered a major masterpiece, it is abundant on a great deal of qualities revolving the consolidation, structure and dissipation of harmonies. All the way through, the work solidly displays a severe and vast degree of authenticity, that guarantees with fundamental reliability its place of honor on the underground scene.
Wagner
With a very mordacious lucidity, the album explores in a profoundly intimate – but at the same time increasingly hostile, abrasive and direct – gesture the preambles of a sincerely harmonious description. At the same time, though, the melodies can be described as accessible and simple, and they touch the general sentimental grounds of the soul with sincerity and grace.
The album does not displace nor dismiss the conventional commonalities of the genre; as a matter of fact, this artifices are used as very useful and satisfactory artistic tools, that deepens the lenient harmonies in between the paradox of its rhythmic dynamism. Despite the fact that the work does have some predictability – as it does not explore too much further new creative horizons –, the album remains loyal to the principles of the genre without being redundant, monotonous or ordinary. So, atmospheric black metal enthusiasts certainly can hear Les Avatars du Vide without any chance of becoming disappointed.
While the album cannot be considered a major masterpiece, it is abundant on a great deal of qualities revolving the consolidation, structure and dissipation of harmonies. All the way through, the work solidly displays a severe and vast degree of authenticity, that guarantees with fundamental reliability its place of honor on the underground scene.
Wagner
