Reveries of the Arcane Eye

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• Band:
  Osgraef
• Duration: 00:41:48
• Available from: 21/03/2025
• Label:

• Amor Fati Productions

Wrapped in the maximum halo of reserve and mystery, the Osgraefs overlook the record market without many preambles if not as presented by their absolute debut, “Reveries of the Arcane Eye”, album published by Amor Fati Productions, an always attentive label in finding the most mephitic and damned realities of the extreme international panorama.
The matter treated by the duo, in fact, revolves around an ancestral and deep death metal, impure, 'dirty' with well evident black metal reminiscences in the vocal style vomited and in some guitar passages that make the Riffing evil and lacerating, as well as dark and solemn.
Totally intent on satanic practices and texts (Luciferians to be precise), the Osgraefs immediately make clear the great quality with which they approach the writing of the pieces, managing with “Sekhem Apep – Vampyre's Enscription” to give a remarkable jolt and inaugurate a musical path that is proposed violent and overwhelming
“Nox Luciferi, Liber Koth” goes with even more vigor among the black-death plots of the album, presenting in over ten minutes many of the stylistic characteristics embraced by ours: in addition to the brute power, flakes of underground melodies emerge, slower moments and ritual noise that increase the charm of the song, despite a rather chaotic structuring that tires it. In this sense, a relatively short song is striking as “Magick Wound (Slithering Omnipotence of Thoth)”, where a couple of spot on riffs and a more dynamic plot manage to raise the clarity of the song, destined to imprint in the mind in an almost unexpected way. Then comes the moment of a sudden turning point for the Osgraef, who decide to vine with the most black metal side of their inspirations with “Morbid Wretch – Reveries of the Arcane Eye” (where they emerge with arrogance of the influences to there Aura noir and close in general to the Norwegian tradition) and with “Flex Insignia”, where a decadent and corrupt melodic taste approaches the duo approaches the duo at the work of the Watain fifteen years ago. It is time to finish this infernal drop with “Mystik Lore – Ancient Summoner of Osgraef”, another long -lasting piece that brings together the different suggestions evoked by the Osgraef in their debut, but which ends up again to get lost in a confusing and not very planned escape.
What remains, at the end of the route, is the certainty of having a band in front of a band that manages to stylistically evoke a precise and accurate picture, according to a truly engaging and sinister general effect: less successful instead, it seems the writing of the pieces, where sometimes some gaps emerge that prevents you from structuring with the right awareness and an equal intensity the whole tracklist, equipped with excellent songs and others less successful. The premises are excellent, we just wait to see what the next inconvenient developments could be.

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