Recommendations

Considering that my recommendations portion of the blog consists of absolutely no description seems like it serves no purpose whatsoever. To serve as the cure, I will be posting descriptions to those albums that I choose to recommend. In no particular order. . .

Austere/Lyrinx - Only the Wind Remembers / Ending the Circle of Life

This is a split by two bands that I consider to be some of the best in the DSBM genre. Austere provides nothing but raw emotion, their riffs are actually unsettling, they aren't just 3 chords played over and over again but they shift and change with perfect timing. As for Lyrinx, the thing that got my attention with this band was the fact that their influences aren't restricted to Black Metal. Hints of Post-Rock have manifested in their art resulting in an emotional display of self-hatred.

Averse Sefira - Tetragrammatical Astygmata

If you know me, you know how much of an impact on my life this band has been and how much I praise this band. This album took awhile for it to grow on me just because it is in fact abstract. After listening for quite sometime I came to the conclusion that Averse Sefira's riffs in itself serve as a conduit to some sort of philosophical ideal. Their timing is absolutely fucked up yet when merged with Numerology you begin to realize so much. Rather than straying towards the traditional, melodic, 4/2, they have all their riffs spiral out of control. It's amazing, mesmerizing, captivating.

Evergrey - Recreation Day

A Power/Prog band that sounds completely unique from all the rest. You won't find any Fairy Tales and high pitched vocals here, instead you get a nice taste of depression, though, anti-religious, well thought art. The only one draw back I hate are the breakdowns. They have chug chug breakdowns yet they are in fact different. They have keyboards setting a base and once again, fucked up timing but over time, it annoys the living shit out of me. Thankfully, they are not in every song.