Liminal Shroud - a call going out to a particular audience

Liminal Shroud

Visions of Collapse

Willowtip Records

5 July 2024

Expect a challenging listen in the genre of progressive extreme metal, mostly within the parameters of black metal. I'm not going to lie to you, this is an album (five songs in 44 minutes) that takes time. I have heard it enough times that most recordings start to make fuller sense, but not this one. Yet, this is on purpose by the band. Four of the songs range from nine to eleven minutes. Especially if you enjoy black and prog metal, the songwriting may really appeal to you if you are looking for music that requires extra focus to be understood. Thoughtful audiences that are looking for music based on skill and vision, and not instant gratification, are the ideal listeners. The band wrote this music for themselves, but they also wrote it for you, and they are looking for you, the thoughtful audience. It is not experimental music. It is black metal, but the type that emphasizes the music itself, without the commercial or attention-getting clichés. Astronomy and existentialism are probably the most important concerns in the lyrics, which are largely impersonal or devoid of egocentric declarations. While some may interpret the lyrics are depressing and the music as too complex, uncommercial, aloof or unmemorable, with this third album the band is completely aware of those criticisms, but they do not care because this is not music for the masses, anyway. It is not ear-friendly music, but that does not mean that it is not skilled or crafted with attention to detail. Quite the contrary.

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