This is the second album from Spanish black metal solo act Délirant.
Thoughteater contains 38 minutes of swirling dissonance, esoteric atmosphere, and dark aggression. With a promo blurb that references bands such as Blut Aus Nord, Akhlys, Deathspell Omega, Abigor, and Misþyrming, are you ready for the nightmare experience that the artist behind Délirant offers up?
This is black metal laced with dissonance. It creeps and crawls into every corner of the music, yet doesn’t dominate it. Sinister groove and direct manifestations of harsh brutality inhibit its full expression, giving rise to a delicious trade-off between dissonant darkness and traditional blackened might. In this way, Thoughteater is a record that exists in both worlds, yet is beholden to neither. Woven throughout this is a seething, tension-laced atmosphere, filled with eerie wonder and arcane promise. The music is steeped in atmospheric depth, but the material’s mood-rich approach is not your typical one.
Thoughteater is psychedelic and disorienting. It’s a labyrinth of spectral melody that has been bent into newly corrupted forms. The artist behind Délirant seems to be viewing another dimension of otherworldly horror and channelling it into the music. The record is both punishing and liberating; once you have seen the end, you can just give yourself over to Thoughteater‘s rarefied charms completely and let it devour you whole.
This is a superlative work. This is a highly compelling slice of underground sophisticated black metal art, and I urge you to spend much time with it.
Essential listening.
Wonderbox Metal 