On September 1st, a void shall emerge from across streaming platforms. A void that will suck any listener into the depths of a cosmic emptiness, enveloping you and leaving your inner self crushed and negated. Crestfallen’s new album Melancholia is no album to brush past. This album will bring you to a new level of a cosmic collapse that draws you in and keeps you wanting to hear more.
A one-man project, Crestfallen out matches the typical atmospheric black metal music. With its aggressive and overwhelming guitar riffs and drums, the music goes beyond itself with its use of atmosphere that pushes past primal sound of the guitar. At the start of the album, the intro track Jus Primae Noctis, or Right of the First Night, you will find yourself hearing the sound of swords clashing; violence spread across the land, surrounding you and leaving you no escape. This track is immediately followed by Orphaned Widow Bereft, an atmosphere that traps you in the claws of an infinite void. It is here where you will desire to stay trapped in the clasp of the void.
By the time you reach Terminus, it will already have been too late; there was never a chance to turn back from this album. Terminus will expose you to the hate and anger that defines this void, forcing you to contemplate the emptiness that has always defined our world. This track reveals that there has always been something deeper than the surface of this void leads on. A revolt against love and life that we have all in some way clung to. But this is what it really means to have melancholia, does it not?
Being lucky enough to be sent this album as a pre-release, I am astounded by the experience it gave me. An album that both draws you in with its anti-cosmic atmosphere and spits you out with the anger that has always been lurking in the deep. This is a must have album on your playlist and a must have on your calendar for its release day, September 1st.
For more on Crestfallen, visit the following: Bandcamp