It’s Friday… The best day of the week? Surely, it must be when there’s new music coming at you from all directions! How about a Friday Freebie in that case! Sludge, doom, black metal and all those atmospheric passages that bring you this powerful, cold and harrowing journey through a landscape filled with grief, depression, and loss… They hail form Belgium and this is SPLENDIDULA and their newest album ABSENTIA! Five years of silence hangs over Absentia, like frost over abandoned gravestones. You can hear the weight of death, departures, and unanswered grief in every note Belgian trio SPLENDIDULA unleash here. And wandering through those desolate corridors, where fragile piano lines flicker briefly before being swallowed by waves of distortion and rage, you will feel it all seep into your very being. Kristien Cools becomes the voice of that darkness itself, shifting between haunting clean vocals and raw screams in Dutch and English with devastating sincerity. Absentia… It’s not just an album about hardship and loss, it sounds like it consumed everything left behind…
Their own words:
“SPLENDIDULA’s fourth album Absentia opens a new chapter in the band’s history. Written in the aftermath of the loss of several loved ones, including bassist Peter Chromiak in 2022, the album is shaped by themes of grief, depression, and loss. Across six tracks, SPLENDIDULA blends black metal and doom with fragile atmospheric passages, drenched in grief and sorrow. Guest contributions by Aaron Stainthorpe (MY DYING BRIDE, HIGH PARASITE) and Tim Yatras (AUSTERE, GERM) lend the album even deeper emotional weight.”
“This is our pain…”
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