Consuming the Tangible

From July 9, 2024

There’s never enough time in the day for everything you love. That’s just a simple fact of life. Try as you might, you get caught in the current and float along, missing things as you struggle to keep your eyes for next solid object to carry you through the waves. And so it was that Liminal Shroud entered my orbit just late enough that I added All Virtues Ablaze to my 2022 list of albums that “should” have made my end of year list instead of my proper list. Mistake acknowledged, because it’s been a constant presence when I want great melodic black metal that caters to all my particular penchants. I wasn’t going to make the same mistake again, so here we are with Visions of Collapse, which pushes the band’s sonics even further into “Chris is gonna LOVE this” territory. Let’s jump into the “why” below.

Read the rest over at Nine Circles.

Looking back 2024 was a great year in metal; I’m still very happy with my overall list, and Visions of Collapse made it to #14. Listening to it now, I love the sound of the drums: clear but never overpowering to the tremolo riffing of the guitars, which also aren’t afraid to put some more melodic cords in their progressions, not simply relegating everything to simple power cords or minor-second half steps. “Nucleonic Blight” remains a favorite, and I’m definitely putting this in the mix of albums inspirations for the current project.