At Dusk is a one-man Black Metal project from the US. This is his début album.
The album starts with an extended section of winds and Classical piano. After this it’s onto the roiling Blackness of Depressive Black Metal in full, morbid flow.
This album features 4 epic-length tracks that are full of lo-fi Black Metal with enhanced keyboard backdrops and expressive downbeat riffing. The melodies are miserably grim and the general aura is one of misanthropic darkness.
Anhedonia’s recording is distinctly underground and this fits the uncompromisingly negative nature of the music well. Fuzziness, distortion and raw Black Metal are layered with Depressive zeal to create works of near-suicidal art.
These songs are like waves of gloom on a twilight sea, ebbing and flowing with capricious vigour. They wear their bleak emotions on their sleeves and listening to At Dusk is like a constant barrage of negativity and woe. But in a good way.
Screams are buried under the blanketing cover of shadows and slash through into the light like serpentine predators.
At 1 hour in length this is a Blackened journey that leaves the listener raw, bruised and emotionally drained.
Listen to this at loud volume and with the lights turned off.
Wonderbox Metal 
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