Style: black metal, dark ambient
Primary Emotions/Themes: Through dissonance there is beauty
Thoughts: Every once in a while you'll get an album like this: nothing super fancy, nothing too original, but gawd dayum does it hit all the right spots in the right moments.
Lunar Mantra play dissonant black metal mixed in with a bit of dark ambient on this release. For those familiar with the genre, the band plays a very standard fare. The music has that signature whirlwind of riffs sound paired with roaring vocals and musical transitions that are jarring for the untrained ear. Standard fare for dissonant metal.
That said, just as I need comfort food - sometimes I need comfort music. Dissonant black metal is largely my go to musical style when I need something to center me. I've amassed a bit of a collection of the genre at this point and while Psychosomatika does not differentiate itself greatly from it's peers it has two major things going for it:
- the album is short
- the album is exceptionally well crafted
Sometimes I don't need a huge defining trait for a band. Sometimes I just need something that I know I'm going to enjoy no matter when I put it on the turntable. Lunar Mantra is exactly that.
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