Review Summary: No other black metal album described the universe, the creation and the creator so beautifully, so significantly, so gloriously.
Assuming you've read a couple of my reviews, it should be clear that I've always been preferring the music that needs dedicated and repeated listens to experience their fullest. With that said, this album is the one that is pretty accessible, while never being compromising. I remember the first time I listened to this, at night, on a mission to break free from my usual insomnia, this had hit me so immensely that to date, it's totally fresh how overwhelmingly bone crushing boner jumping that journey was. You may ask me how many times I played this and I would say I've definitely crossed 100 times and yet it ***s my mind like the very first time.
[Track to Track write-up]
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#1. DIA ARTIO
You wake up somewhere, beside a Amazonian cascade, a land so serene so sublime you'll immediately surrender to its everglowing glory. As the song progresses and the ambience intensifies, you'll feel like walking to the symphony of waterfalls ramming against the mundane stones and letting the breeze cuddle all your body. It's a remeniscing chant, a chant that your digital lifestyle hadn't the ability to decrypt, a chant that symbolized the balance, the significance of life.
#2. VASTNESS AND SORROW
This 12 minute track takes over Dia Artio's serenity and moulds it into a two headed Devil that is both threatening and melancholy. Welcome to in-depth sonic description of humankind's negligence to Mother Nature and the sorrowful fate, the impending doom, the natural calamities.
#3. CLEANSING
Every mother forgives her children, no matter how morbidly sinned they are, Mothers' embrace are always welcoming. Mother Nature lifts the torment and the curse from her sons, represented by the two hunters, and cleanses them with redemption and love. Other worldly beautiful neo-classical choir (one of the best I ever heard) and extremely ferocious black metal onslaught contrast each other perfectly as the children are being purified from the evil.
#4. I WILL LAY DOWN MY BONES AMONG THE ROCKS AND ROOTS
The final chapter begins with a very very effective piano intro that is equally cryptic and refreshing. The peak moment of the whole ***ing album, has a demigodly(as for godly wasn't enough and only a demigod can slay a god) guitar riff that you never could've imagined if you do not hear this. After the grand baptism, the sons, the hunters have finally reached the primal root, the primitive invocation, the way that our world was meant to be. I've never heard a song that describes the universe, the creation and the creator so beautifully, so significantly, so gloriously.
