Great Cold Emptiness - Immaculate Hearts Will Triumph (2023)

The project led by the Maine-based Nathan Guerrette, Great Cold Emptiness, has recently released his third ever album and the final part of the "The Becoming of a Man" trilogy. Called Immaculate Hearts Will Triumph, the album is filled with heavy guitars and blackgaze vibes.

As he already managed to get us used to, Guerette creates a top-quality atmospheric black metal bordering with oneiric blackgaze. The compositions here are both dreamy and nightmarish, airy and heavy, soothing and enraging. There is some of black metal's riff racing and tons of angry vocals hidden somewhere under the haze of music. But the flow and the dispersed effects make it all extremely shoegaze-like. This whole powerful and inspiring atmosphere is needed on the album to talk about self-realization, the importance of friendship and "the triumph of the heart and overcoming the most difficult stages in a man's life: him finally leaving home". Nothing quite inspires awe just like a well-tailored blackgaze.

Immaculate Hearts Will Triumph costs 7 USD.

Great Cold Emptiness - Death Gifted a Bouquet (2020)

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Country: Maine, US

Genre: true blackgaze

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Great Cold Emptiness is the result of collaboration between multi-instrumentalist Nathan Guerrette and vocalist Meghan Wood. The band have just released their second LP called Death Gifted a Bouquet  and presented there their absolutely phenomenal, diverse post-metal/blackgaze.

There's so much on this album. Already the first track, The Erotic Waltz, starts by tearing the space apart with its airy vocal-induced post-metal with Violet Cold's vibes only to change to greatly moody piano passage with Gregorian choir and finally to folk-inspired atmospheric dark noise. This unorthodox amalgamation of airy, sometimes even sacral elements with post-metal nature of the Americans' music is the most interesting thing on the album and it climaxes probably in The Little Deer. 

The whole album is carefully thought through and "follows the story of a grieving mother living in solitude in the middle of a large autumn forest and the straining relationship she has with her daughter". Therefore not only the darkness of post-metal but also folk inspirations are well justified. The album is so diverse and engaging that it completely didn't feel like an hour, fantastic work.

Death Gifted a Bouquet costs 7 USD.

Check: The Erotic Waltz

Country: Maine, US

Genre: airy post-metal
Label: Flowing Downward

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Great Cold Emptiness to efekt współpracy multi-instrumentalisty Nathana Guerrette i wokalistki Meghan Wood. Zespół wydał właśnie swoją drugą płytę długogrającą, Death Gifted a Bouquet, i pokazał na niej absolutnie fenomenalny, różnorodny post-metal/blackgaze.

Mało czego nie ma na albumie. Już pierwszy kawałek, The Erotic Waltz, najpierw rozrywa przestrzeń wzbogaconym eterycznym wokalem post-metalem w stylu Violet Cold by po chwili zaprezentować znakomicie nastrojowy pasaż z pianinem i gregoriańskim chórem w tle a w końcu inspirowany folkiem klimatyczny dark noise. Właśnie to nieoczywiste połączenie eterycznych, czasem wręcz sakralnych wątków z post-metalową naturą muzyki Amerykanów jest na płycie najciekawsze, a zenit osiąga jak się wydaje w The Little Deer. 

Cały album jest uważnie przemyślany i "opowiada historię pogrążonej w żałobie matki mieszkającej samotnie w głębi jesiennego lasu i napiętej relacji między nią a jej córką". Stąd nie tylko mrok post-metalu ale i folkowe inspiracje są jak najbardziej uzasadnione. Album jest tak urozmaicony i wciągający, że zupełnie nie zauważyłem jak minęła ta godzina z okładem, fantastyczna pozycja.

Death Gifted a Bouquet kosztuje 27 złotych (7 USD).

Sprawdź: The Erotic Waltz

Kraj: Maine, US

Szufladka: airy post-metal
Label: Flowing Downward

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