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Boreal Despair

by SKYTHALA

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Brandon Sussman
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Brandon Sussman God-tier music. Retroactively my 2022 AOTY, beating Devin Townsend. Favorite track: Rotted Wooden Castles.
Lorenzo
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Lorenzo Merging the worlds of expansive black metal and lavish orchestral / neoclassical music, Boreal Despair pushes the potential of metal into untouched sound. The band displays a rather developed array of song structures and arrangements that blend scathing dissonance with bold instrumentation

On its own, the black metal is already substantial, with death metal creeping in, technicality, and atmospheric qualities. It is when that is combined with the classical side that this album breaks convention
Dan Curhan
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Dan Curhan This avant-symphonic technical black metal album's swirling horns and jaunty synths will drag you into the depths of an entirely unique sonic world, unfettered from convention and confident in its own esoteric aura. The raw, tinny production and repetitive blackened passages belie the skill lurking beneath the murky surface, manifesting as occasional explosions of fretboard finesse and engaging, energetic drums. This one's very, very good.
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Born around a mysterious and prolific American underground label known as Moonlight Cypress Archetypes, SKYTHALA are an even bigger enigma. Its members come from Knoxville and Nashville, Tennessee, but also from New Jersey, and their proposal is a strange and exciting combination of black metal, death metal and Russian neoclassical music, especially that of Igor Stravinsky.
Thus was born "Boreal Despair", a surprising debut album in which oboes, bassoons and trombones assist the ultra-heavy guitars typical of extreme metal in rich and full-bodied arrangements at the service of dissonant melodies. SKYTHALA's scores are dizzyngly progressive and avant-garde, yet on no occasion does their overwhelming creativity repress their blinding metal fury.
Quite unexpectedly, "Boreal Despair" delivers to the most experimental and courageous underground metal scene some new and fierce representatives, perfectly capable of rivaling bands like Gorguts, Krallice, Haunter and Cosmic Putrefaction.

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released November 18, 2022

R - compositions, guitars, bass, vocals, orchestrating
E - keyboards, orchestrating, compositions
S - Drums

Mixed and mastered by Simon Da Silva The Empty Hall Studio
Guest vocals on "Yielding Quivers of Revolution" by Starer

Cover painting by Kristina Pavleska
Art direction and layout by Francesco Gemelli
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Cat. Nr. IVR188

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