Writhe - The Shrouded Grove

Slowly steering the blog back on track with a short piece of brittish atmospheric black metal by Writhe. The EP itself is nothing particularly innovating, though it should appease fans of the so-called "blackgaze" style of music. I've made the point somewhere in the past that a band doesn't have to be innovative to be good - there is beauty in iteration, as long as it's well made.

And it is pretty good, as it stands.

Shoutout to the youtube channel Atmospheric Black Metal Albums for this particular suggestion.

Medo - Cruzando os Portais do Submundo

Some time-consuming personal projects have prevented me from contributing regularly to The Brainlesser. Even though I can't write lengthy texts for the time to come - not that it makes much of a difference for the 2 or 3 people who actually follow this joint -, I might as well at least keep you updated on what's spinning on my gramophone.

Today, I bring you Medo, a Portuguese act which plays black metal as it should be done: gruesome, ghastly, grim. Here's their third album, Cruzando os Portais do Submundo, released earlier this year. A huge plus: they write in the most beautiful language in the whole world, our native Portuguese – unlike many nationalistic, patrio-idiotic black metal bands who use the imperial tongue of the day; to wit, awfully written broken English.

Monument of Urns - Absence

Getting this blog train back on track with the devastating Absence by the notoriously obscure Monument of Urns. Heavy, drone-y, funeral-y, despairing twenty something minutes of doom for your perusal. Just the thing to kickstart September - what a shitty month it is. 

If you're left thirsting for more, check out my long-winded diatribe on Habsyll right here.