TRAUER - A Walk Into The Twilight
Label: Nihilistische KlangKunst / War Against Yourself Records
Released: 2016
Depressive black metal from Germany, yeah it would be great to stop right there with that description but ya know you can't. TRAUER are a two man outfit featuring Neideck, who plays bass, drums, guitars, keyboards and sings, and Arges also on guitar. Depressive in the cannon of black metal genre description has become a relative term over the years. You have your "I'm downing a bottle of vodka and loading a pistol" type depressive. Then there's the "I wanna kill you and then kill myself" depressive. Also there's the "I wanna be epic, cold and grim but I like a little melody" depressive . I think TRAUER falls into that latter category.
A Walk Into The Twilight is definitely on the raw side production wise, which the True BM crowd demands. Neideck adds a lot of variety to the song structures whether it's some acoustic guitar or the seasoning of keyboards giving texture to the cold guitar riff-age. It's not a total bleak-fest. I didn't take a nap while it played in the background which does happen with this type of music on occasion. You can't crash during a song like "The Invocation Of The Parasites", can you?
Rating: 3/5
https://nihilistischeklangkunst.bandcamp.com/album/nkk-014-last-way-cd-058-trauer-a-walk-into-the-twilight
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