Style: atmospheric black metal
Primary Emotions/Themes: Sorrow, deep heart wrenching sorrow
Thoughts: Take a moment to look at the cover of this album. Everything in the picture is hard to make out, but ultimately a visage does unfold the more one examines it. A quickly sketched portrait of what seems like an older person covering a child from the harsh winds surrounding them. This struggle against the elements, against life, is exactly what the music contained in Sjaeleangst's debut album sounds like.
There are four songs on this album, each one sounds like they were penned by someone facing the end of their life. The amount of emotion and pure sorrow that is contained in each one of these compositions is rare. Most of the tracks are largely black metal based, but there are some additional elements that pull the overall quality and emotional intensity of the music up.
A piano to start the song, an extended acoustic break, some rain falling during a moment of reflection. All of these things are found in between the black metal, and they help heighten the desperation of the album. Sjaeleangst's debut is a strong album. Not only does it attack the senses with an incredible sense of emotion, but it does so without a moment of weakness in the songwriting either. Very curious to see where this project goes from here.
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