Media: LP Label : Werewolf Press : EVIL-089LPblack - Finland Year : 2023
New or Used : Original new
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The bats having flown the belfry, YMIR continue their pillage of the present with the second album Aeons of Sorrow. Driving deeper into the past, Vrasjarn unfurls a comparatively more melodic and nuanced record that's icier and, daresay, more beautiful. Here, he's joined by the always-commanding presence of Corvus on vocals and prolific veteran drummer VnoM, with bass by True Black Dawn's Syphon and additional synths by Tyranny's Agathul - a crucial component of the mesmerizing tapestry of Aeons of Sorrow. To step into the album's landscape is to imbue the spiritual essence, the psychic sensations, the all-enveloping ATMOSPHERE of 1995. Quiet castles, ice-capped mountains, beastly blizzards, infinite darkness, capes and swords and chainmail: while seemingly innocuous "triggers" for those who don't breathe that essence - or worse, mere items of mockery - they serve as the textural touchstones for bands like YMIR and records like Aeons of Sorrow, both in increasingly short supply no matter what the internet might tell you. And yet, with the skillfully unselfconscious songwriting on display here, the album adds to that noble tradition rather than listlessly pecking at its remains.
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