The Great Sea – Noble Art of Desolation

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• Band:
  The Great Sea
• Duration: 00:41:42
• Available from: 25/04/2025
• Label:

• AOP RECORDS

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With a programmatic title such as “Noble Art of Desolation”, the debut album of The Great Sea is clear from the cover: introspection, existential spleen and uncontaminated nature are the roots on which a black metal is grafted that starts from what coded by the “Berger” of the Ulver, crosses the inheritance of the Lunar Aurora and certainly black atmospheric. last decade and returns to get lost in the woods and seas.
The German duo, formed by JR (Long Distance Calling) and SH (Ordeal & Plight), moves away from the post-rock shores of the formations of origin-while never forgetting them completely, especially in a certain reflective taste in the most introspective, tenuous but present moments, almost the memory of a family perfume to lap for example the “Fading” interlude: for the rest, guitar and low, low. Having tightened and darkening the sound, covered with harsh voices in Screaming, with keyboards and dot their dark musical skies.
But on the other hand, the genre and the issues treated do not really ask for anything else: ours are skilled in expressing their artistic urgency so much – evident especially in the most black moments, pulled or by the almost obsessive refrain, such as “The Maze” or “upright in Nothing” – as much as the meditative contemplation that only a deep, solitary immersion in natural environments can give; In such situations, sensations of sidereal sadness and deaf wonder chase each other, and so it also happens in the best songs of the entire lot, “No Peace Among Men” or “Eden Unfolded”, with the latter sees the unmistakable voice of Phil 'Sg' Jonas of the Secrets of the Moon who were to give a further tone of fierce despair to the instrumental compartment, while the vocal contribution, of Azathoth (ex dark fortress) gives a rarefied and disturbing dimension to the first.
“Noble Art of Desolation” is, therefore, a really good debut: despite the crowded panorama, we have marked the name of The Great Sea among those to keep an eye on; We do not know if the project will have a sequel or not, but we are sure that, with a little more than chisel work during the writing and a little more audacity in navigating such, wild black waters away from the sure rocks of those who have lived it for years, their music will really be able to leave a deeper sign.

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