post black metal / black metal/ death metal/ experimental
Oasis is an album released on November 2, by New Zealand experimental/ atmospheric post black metal duo Súl ad Astral. Almost one hour long, the record has ten tracks: In Dreams Reborn, Float, Pennies Down The Infinity Well, Last Regret, Inaction and Consequence, Hindsight, This Broken Ideal and the title track, Oasis. A beautiful album, impregnated with a formidable level of organic fury, dramatic energy, dynamic synergy and an ostensibly explosive level of creative originality, Oasis is a lucid, expressive and very cohesive work, abundant on rapid harmonies, aggressive tonalities and distinct musical vigor. With a genuine and consistent signature sound, the album – from the beginning until the end –, reveals itself as a primal and whimsical musical work, that displays on the layers of its proficient salutary qualities an excellent and brutal performance.
With the amazing and joyful intertwining of clean and guttural vocals, and discreetly flirting with power metal devices, the style of Súl ad Astral is very fluid, gracefully dynamic, dense and proverbially virtuous. Most of all, is impeccable and sensibly peculiar, with a very distinct grace floating over its very colorful, yet heavy notes. With some latent melodic death metal tonalities being amazingly prevalent over its distinct rapid sequences – nurturing the unlimited atmosphere of its boundless musical glory –, the sound is perfunctorily creative and fearless, and never renounces to its majestic harmonious and composite grandeur, that seems wisely dilapidated over the dimensional tapestry of a dense, but perfectly consecrated melodic expansion.
As a sensational conjuncture of symphonies that departs from an entirely new universe of passionate and sagacious musical possibilities, Súl ad Astral has conceived Oasis as a masterful, rapturous and beautiful mosaic of marvelous splendor, whose wonderful style is definitely singular, and will hardly find a similar parallel in the history of underground music.
Crossing over several distinct genres – post black metal, melodic death metal, post grunge, metalcore and even pop rock – in varying degrees, in a wide and creative range of intricate sonorous possibilities, Súl ad Astral is a fantastic and proverbial musical act, with no boundaries or restrictions whatsoever. Merging altogether the most predominant elements of several apparently disparate genres, this fabulous musical act conceives an entirely different level of greatness very cohesively, without any disruptions nor dysfunctions, whose splendid results can be categorized as a creative statement of talent and authenticity.
With a splendorous shape, and an extending musical diagram, the energetic and powerful creativity of the duo is very compelling and graciously vivacious. They are obviously not bounded or limited to a particular genre, but definitely are fully compromised in developing its own insightful, organic and highly original musical style.
Wagner
With the amazing and joyful intertwining of clean and guttural vocals, and discreetly flirting with power metal devices, the style of Súl ad Astral is very fluid, gracefully dynamic, dense and proverbially virtuous. Most of all, is impeccable and sensibly peculiar, with a very distinct grace floating over its very colorful, yet heavy notes. With some latent melodic death metal tonalities being amazingly prevalent over its distinct rapid sequences – nurturing the unlimited atmosphere of its boundless musical glory –, the sound is perfunctorily creative and fearless, and never renounces to its majestic harmonious and composite grandeur, that seems wisely dilapidated over the dimensional tapestry of a dense, but perfectly consecrated melodic expansion.
As a sensational conjuncture of symphonies that departs from an entirely new universe of passionate and sagacious musical possibilities, Súl ad Astral has conceived Oasis as a masterful, rapturous and beautiful mosaic of marvelous splendor, whose wonderful style is definitely singular, and will hardly find a similar parallel in the history of underground music.
Crossing over several distinct genres – post black metal, melodic death metal, post grunge, metalcore and even pop rock – in varying degrees, in a wide and creative range of intricate sonorous possibilities, Súl ad Astral is a fantastic and proverbial musical act, with no boundaries or restrictions whatsoever. Merging altogether the most predominant elements of several apparently disparate genres, this fabulous musical act conceives an entirely different level of greatness very cohesively, without any disruptions nor dysfunctions, whose splendid results can be categorized as a creative statement of talent and authenticity.
With a splendorous shape, and an extending musical diagram, the energetic and powerful creativity of the duo is very compelling and graciously vivacious. They are obviously not bounded or limited to a particular genre, but definitely are fully compromised in developing its own insightful, organic and highly original musical style.
Wagner
