Earlier this year, I wrote a review about Throne Of Katarsis 2011' release "Ved Graven" that was an awesome album for every fan of old school black metal. Now, two years after the release of Ved Graven, the band gives birth to an other masterpiece entitled "The Three Trancendental Keys" released through Candlelight Records records on the 21st of October 2013.
The album is 50 minutes long and consists of only three songs, a song for each of the three transencental keys. It is a concept album, musically and lyrically. The whole album offers the listener a breathtaking atmosphere that you will not forget. The album has a real evil vibe and some may also call their genre depressive suicidal black metal because of this real sinister atmosphere that they create. Obviously, all three songs are very long and have several segments, for example fast blast beats and tremolo picked guitar riffing, but they have some slower atmospheric parts as well.
Listening to the songs, you feel like you are on a journey, experiencing several up/downs and mood changes. But the mood never gets positiv, in fact, if you listen closely you will sink in the melancholy of the songs and enjoy the good music created by this masterclass band. You will encounter beautiful melodies, fast blast beats, horrifying screams that scream like a victim on the bottom of hell for salvation, melancholic chords and so on. You have to listen three-four times to the album to discover all hidden elements and understand the music right.
The quality of the recordings got a little better than on the last release but it's still raw enough to remain "trve", if you know what I mean. Personally I think that the quality of the recording is a thing that gives the band even more musical darkness and feeling; it simply fits perfect to the music. The album cover is in the same style as their previous release "Ved Graven" and totally fits to the music as well.
"The Three Transcendantal Keys" is an album that you will listen from the beginning to the end. The tension never drops and the band managed to bring enough diversity to the songs so that they are not boring. If you think that this is an other band that just repeats three riffs for 15 minutes, you are wrong, because they don't (and this is a good thing) because you can see how talented they are by structuring their music so well and making it almost unique in the whole black metal scene.
Throne Of Katarsis' new release is not very different from what they did in the past, but the music definetly improved and they reached a new level of grimness and musical perfection. "The Three Transcendantal Keys" is an album for every fan of negative old school black metal with a dark atmosphere. Check it out!
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