This is the debut album from French solo black metal band Rüyyn.
Chapter II: The Flames, the Fallen, the Fury offers the listener 43 minutes of well-crafted black metal to absorb and digest. Rüyyn’s music is accomplished and rewarding.
Taking cues primarily from the melodic school of black metal, but also with touches of the dissonant and progressive ones, the artist behind Rüyyn visits a few different eras for inspiration across these six tracks.
The music is well-written and professionally realised, and the songs are aggressive and dark. They’re enriched with blackened melodies that weave their way through the music, and melancholic atmosphere that can sometimes border on the epic. There’s a balance between aggression and atmosphere that’s compelling; the furious blackened assault is tempered by considered mood-building and spacious reflective progressive depth, making for songs that are easy to revisit and become lost in.
Chapter II: The Flames, the Fallen, the Fury is an album that grows over time, spreading its dark fiery wings to encompass all as it soars and roars through the heavens. It’s a combination of complementary sounds that is greater than the sum of its parts. If a mix of bands such as Dissection, Woe, Gorgoroth, Deathspell Omega, and Uada appeals, then check out Chapter II: The Flames, the Fallen, the Fury.
Highly recommended.
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