Robust – robust

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• Band:
  Robust
• Duration: 00:47:34
• Available since: 08/04/2025
• Label:

• Ván Records

We would like to give you some more detailed information on Robust, a band that begins with this album of the same name under the wings of Ván Record and TerraTur possession, but little or nothing is also spread by official channels, so we will make the music speak exclusively.
The soil on which the Robusti travel is that of a black metal with extremely lo-fi sounds that approaches the raw current of bands such as Black Cilice and Ildjarn, but with a particular eye in creating interesting structures, quite classic but never too banal.
The result are songs with a medium-long duration made of circular and obsessive riffs, well articulated and with a particular eye on the melody, without ever going into too well-melenian territories and remaining well anchored to that feeling of typical claustrophobia of the genre.
In the forty -seven minutes of duration of this homonymous “robust” we find more direct and minimal moments, such as the “Form of a Bear” opening track, which refers to the mind the Gorgoroth of the start of the career, or “Spell Translation”, in which everything revolves around a pounding battery and deliberately chaotic guitars, capable of giving the song a great feeling of fury and uncompromising.
The depressive “feather key” by the Burzumian connotations for minimalism and obsessiveness, which moves towards the conclusion only after a nice interlude of desolant arpeggios, are to be contralt. “Reconciliation”, the best song on the disc, sounds like a long mantra in which guitars draw almost folk melodies and then dive into a long growing and intense crescendo.
“Infinity Boast” finds from his time to give flashes of old school thrash metal, while with the night arpeggios of the final “Debris” the Robusti delude us to be able to find a moment of peace. However, everything is only a blunder as the song, with a curious Palindroma structure, explodes in the central part and then close again on sad notes of clean guitar.
Like most of the exits of the genre, this debut is not an object for everyone, given its nihilism and its intrinsic sound roughness (absolutely desired, it is clear), but if it does not scare you, we recommend listening to a listening: you will not find anything new, indeed, some solutions really play familiar, but the result is certainly sincere and destabilizing.

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