Ashtar - Releasing New Album In May
New album details from Switzerland based duo Ashtar are here. Entitled Kaikuja, it's set to be unleashed on May 15th, 2020 via Eisenwald (CD, Vinyl and Digital). This is the band's second full-length and includes 5 songs.
Descriptive comment: Translated from Finnish as 'Echoes', Kaikuja is aptly titled, for its dense-yet-spacious soundwalls bear a rich 'n' reverberating strength. Trace elements of black metal and doom exist once again, but are further spliced with the DNA of drone, sludge, and even post-rock, making for a heady (and HEAVY) brew that's seemingly served up with ease by Ashtar. And even more so than the debut, for a band that's "merely" a duo, these five epic-length songs emit an almost-impossible density, bewitchingly revealing new layers with each listen. And at nearly 40 minutes, the landscape Ashtar paint here is far more vast than that compact runtime suggests.
Descriptive comment: Translated from Finnish as 'Echoes', Kaikuja is aptly titled, for its dense-yet-spacious soundwalls bear a rich 'n' reverberating strength. Trace elements of black metal and doom exist once again, but are further spliced with the DNA of drone, sludge, and even post-rock, making for a heady (and HEAVY) brew that's seemingly served up with ease by Ashtar. And even more so than the debut, for a band that's "merely" a duo, these five epic-length songs emit an almost-impossible density, bewitchingly revealing new layers with each listen. And at nearly 40 minutes, the landscape Ashtar paint here is far more vast than that compact runtime suggests.
Track listing:
01. Aeolus
02. Between Furious Clouds
03. Bloodstones
04. The Closing
05. (She is) Awakening
01. Aeolus
02. Between Furious Clouds
03. Bloodstones
04. The Closing
05. (She is) Awakening
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