SATOR – The Dying Light

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• Bands:
  SATOR
• Duration: 00:36:57
• Available from: 12/12/2025
• Label:

• Dusktone

Fifth seal in the discography of the Genoese heavy doomster Sator in the space of a good ten years, who landed with this new work on the Dusktone roster.
A slow and heavy path, like the sounds of this “The Dying Light”, a work that sees the Ligurian trio return to the origins of a more traditional sound after the digressions of “The Cleansing Ritual”, which saw a more experimental approach and some digressions that even insinuated some post-punk cries. Here we return to a pachydermal Suldge doom, oppressive, enveloping and desperate, capable of creating a swampy wall of sound along its six tracks for less than forty minutes.

There is a thick darkness in “The Dying Light”, but there is no lack of a certain dynamism of sound (even in the duration, as there are songs even under five minutes): if in fact the sound carpet is intricate and tight, some seventies-era reminiscence peeps out (Black Sabbath always emerge, at a certain point, as in “Electric Rain”) when not purely metal (“Purify”), some psychedelic melodic jolts (“The Dancing Plague”) and even some hardcore outburst, with some well-placed restarts within the album and some riffs that hit the mark.
These moments make listening quite alive, maintaining interest and detaching a bit from the magma that would otherwise flatten listening in the long run, however the basis remains that of an obsessive and martial album, supported by an always impressive performance.
The voice remains a strong point of the trio, just as the use of guitars is quite agile in presenting the various listening registers of the album, and in general the band is good at creating atmospheres that are suffocating, but capable of developing properly in sound progressions well aimed at an actual song objective.

Of course, we are not talking about an album that will mark the history of this musical segment, nor that necessarily stands out compared to other names in the same scene, but his does it with ability and personality.
In short, although the final result remains well anchored in the vision of a rather classic sludge doom and in the average of the genre in terms of solutions and results (old-fashioned Eyehategod, Neurosis, Amenra) the Italian group publishes another good work, which will certainly be able to make its intensity live into a very dark and dangerous, certainly satisfying, 'journey'. Good album for fans of the muddiest sounds.