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Ysengrin - Initiatio



6.6 | 5 votes |
Release date: 17 June 2020
Style: Black metal, Death metal, Doom metal

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01. Potencée D'or
02. Celui Qui Est Au-Dessus
03. Pass'age
04. Mémorables (G. De Nerval - Extraits)
05. Ode À L'escarboucle
06. Téménos
07. Mia Carne Sepolta
08. Monumentum
09. Pantaculum Mystagogia

12.08.2020
Initiatio is unfortunately the final full-length release of Ysengrin but an excellent adieu for the band nonetheless. It is a mystical, occult and avant-garde mid-tempo black metal album blended with doom and death metal, in the vein of Mortuary Drape and Necromantia, mainly due to the use of two basses as the instruments of choice for driving the songs. The sound feels raw and ancient but, most of all, dark and ritualistic. Half of the tracks have reappeared in early demos of the band and are reinterpreted here with new arrangements but always respecting their primitive nature.

Mastered on analog gear and graced with a wonderfully obscure cover art by Luciana Nedelea, Initiatio is Hermeticism in music form.

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12.08.2020 - 11:12
RaduP
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The Mortuary Drape and Necromantia had me interested, I'll check this out pronto
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Do you think if the heart keeps on shrinking
One day there will be no heart at all?
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17.08.2020 - 01:54
Auntie Sahar
Drone Empress
If this is anything like Necromantia I'm definitely interested
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I am the Magician and the Exorcist. I am the axle of the wheel, and the cube in the circle. “Come unto me” is a foolish word: for it is I that go.

~ II. VII
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