Tenebrositas is a one-man black metal project from Croatia. This is his latest demo.
I really liked 2015’s Forever Nothing, which was a raw 34 minutes of Norwegian black metal worship that really hit the spot for me. Continue reading “Tenebrositas – Alone in the Frozen Wastelands (Review)”
This is the second album from Croatian one-man Black Metal band Tenebrositas.
This is Black Metal that’s minimalistic and cold. I love the album cover and it speaks in the same, simple language as the music.
The raw sound nonetheless has a certain frosted vibrancy to it and the sole band member may be trapped in the past but no matter how inhospitable it may sound, he’s perfectly at home.
The vocals lash out as if from a storm and they’re the kind of vocalisations that come across almost like static; high pitched screams, nearly lost in the mix. It’s the kind of Black Metal delivery that shouldn’t really work but I find that it adds a certain something to the style that usually makes me a very happy bunny indeed, as is the case here.
This is an album that embraces the early Norwegian sound and certainly does it justice. The icy melodies and repetitive strumming do exactly what they’re meant to. These songs are less about riffs and more about feelings. To that end, Forever Nothing succeeds in producing raw, underground Black Metal that focuses on a holistic Blackened delivery, with everything contributing to the replication of the core Black Metal style.
This may not be to everyone’s tastes, especially if you’re sated on this form of Black Metal, but it’s certainly to mine.
All hail Tenebrositas!
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