While this album can be monoteous & Skold can't properly handle high octaves on Equilazer i salute it's clever use of minimalism - things like instantly memorable pulsating beats in Fiction, secateurs-like sounds in Decay, Decay, compressed church organ in Murder Suicide. All of this is wrapped up into suitably cold OG industrial soundscapes with interesting, open to interpretations lyrics deeply exploring spiritual satanism & dark mythology. At last it will finish you off in Leviathan Abyss. Symbolic ‡ Tentacles
Dies Irae marks the point when Skold truly matured. Playful rock n' roll songs only stab you with provocation this time. He also fully embraced his gothic punk aura showcasing the same anarhistic aplomb. It all led to this drum-tight album unreveling texts with symbolic fatalism, horror'esque post-effects & unpedictable synths which are flirting with his most serious, at times even heavy metal type of rock strengtened up by very skillful guitar solos. The song-writting is front to back solid. Symbolic ‡ Tentacles
SKOLD continuously amazes me with his near incessant output of incredible music and "Seven Heads" is no different. Angry. Brutal. Honest. Scathing. Emotional? SKOLD at his finest!
vikingfan01
Kush Arora's latest EP features his trademark meticulous sound design, delving fully into a bleak, cold experimental world. Bandcamp New & Notable Oct 22, 2019