INHERITS THE VOID – The Silent Abscission

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• Bands:
  INHERITS THE VOID
• Duration: 00:47:17
• Available from: 06/19/2026
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• Avantgarde Music

The synopsis that accompanies the promo of this fourth full-length by the French blacksters Inherits The Void, entitled “The Silent Abscission”, describes the work as an ideal meeting point between atmospheric and melodic black metal and, in fact, what you will find between these grooves can actually be described as a successful mix of what stylistically proposed by bands such as Misþyrming, Vinterland and Dawn.
What, however, must be kept in mind when approaching this album is that Inherits The Void (in this new album even more than in previous works) push, push and push again. So, if you are looking for predominantly ecstatic, enveloping and contemplative music, your expectations may only be partially satisfied; this component is in fact very present in our proposal, but the foundations of this album are forcefully anchored in the melodic death metal of the mid-nineties, to the delight of the fans, as well as of the acts already mentioned previously, also of other bastions of the aforementioned scene such as Naglfar, Sacramentum and, obviously, Dissection.

At the basis of this renewed vigor there could be the transition of the project from a pure one-man band to a real group, at least as regards the work in the studio: alongside the mastermind AS, in this “The Silent Abscission”, we find Romain Negro (Apolaustic, ex Stortregn) on vocals and Nicolas Müller (Akiavel, ex Artefact and Svart Crown) on drums.
The result is what is probably the most organic work in Inherits The Void's discography, although the traits of continuity with what has been done in the past are more evident than ever. Simply, entrusting two such important elements of the overall sound to two musicians with such experience seems to have led the good AS's compositions to sound centered, powerful and profound like never before, maximizing every single peculiarity.

To get a taste of the truthfulness of what has just been expressed, it is sufficient to let yourself be overwhelmed by the relentless assault and the immersive atmosphere of the emblematic title track “The Silent Abscission”, the perfect calling card for the current stylistic code of Ours, between pounding blast-beats, mesmerizing orchestrations and sharp, delightfully old-school riffs.
Other notable pieces are no exception such as the successful opener “The Sepulcher Of Time”, the more varied “The Dawn Over Ruins” or the intense “The Last Cry Of Cosmos” and “A World Unmade”, while the more atmospheric and melancholy epic soul of the French band explodes in all its magniloquent power in the penetrating “In The Shadow Of The Falling Star” and “Inherits The Void”, a composite final suite capable of condense within it all the changing stylistic variety of our band, including the refined and pertinent use of clean voices in the Vintersorg/Borknagar style.

Particular praise goes to the way in which the band manages the melodic and atmospheric sector of its proposal, richly chiseled thanks to a surprising variety of solutions concretized in absolutely meticulous lines and a particular attention to the general dynamism, so that the various compositions sound like authentic, small sound narratives of great completeness (this is where the influence of bands such as Misþyrming, Midnight Odyssey and Mare Cognitum is felt most clearly).
The real trump card of this “The Silent Abscission” turns out to be, in fact, the intrinsic descriptive power of the songs that compose it – just try to listen to the central sax phrasing with almost Eighties new wave references of “Wrath Of The Endless Sea” to get a taste of it – which, combined with the ability revealed by Inherits The Void to keep the engine revs constantly high, both in terms of interpretative intensity and in terms of the merely performance, make this fourth full-length of the Frenchman's career an authentic gem of inspired melodic black metal, profound and not at all entangled in the stylistic confines of the genre, despite the profound and clear connection with its 'golden age'.
In short, if you are looking for excellent melodic black metal enriched with successful melancholic-existential atmospheric glimpses, this “The Silent Abscission” by Inherits The Void is a record that you absolutely must not miss.