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- Band:
Avkrvst - Duration: 00:45:20
- Available since: 13/06/2025
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Only two years have passed since the debut of the Avkrvst but, listening to the new “Waving at the Sky”, there is a doubt that in reality the time is seen is much more. And this feeling is given by the fact that this new album is very mature, of great breath, in balance between the taste of the most metal cut progressive (as the productions of the last opeth or the first Pain of Salvation can be) and the one between the seventies and eighties, with Pinkfloydian influences and Derive Space Rock.
In this second work, the Norwegians take inspiration from a local news news that happened when the founders of the Avkrvst were children, or a case of family abuses that occurred in the countryside near Oslo. Given the theme, one would expect a gloomy work but, during the seven tracks, there is a crescendo of intensity up to the complex and long conclusive song, as well as title-track, which opens in a raciar sequence of keyboards that lead to a serene conclusion.
Compared to the previous “The Landing”, where some parts were not well developed on a musical level and the sung parties had not fully convinced, in this “Waving at the Sky”, Simon Bergseth offers an excellent performance by exploiting the transition between clean parts and growls (perhaps also affected by the influence of the aforementioned openth): in songs such as “Preceding” and “Families Are Forever”, its singing. To the atmosphere, which brings with it the intertwining of guitars (played by Simon and Edvard Seim) and the ethereal sounds of the keyboards (played in turn by Martin Utby, Øystein Aadland and Auver Garen). The rhythmic parts see a refined game of stoppates, underlining of pathos in the situations of domestic violence told, and are developed by the two main composers (Simon and Martin), helped by the same Øystein.
Going to see other peculiarities relating to this second work, we find a small but precious cameo thanks to the presence in the single “The Malevolent” of the singer of the Haken Ross Jennings, who with his stamp adds further and different shades to the story told.
If we consider that the care of the sound is truly sought after, that the result of the mixture between folk and rock passages as in the piece “Conflating Memories” proves to be a common thread also with the psychedelia found in the final moments of the album, we can say that the evolution of the Avkrvst already on the second album, a well -balanced album and played impeccably, is able to project them into another dimension.
Daniel D`Amico for SANREMO.FM
