Silvern – Stardust Sermons
Band: Silvern
Title: Stardust Sermons
Label: Vendetta Records
Release date: September 6th, 2024
Country: Ukraine
Format reviewed: High-Quality Digital Recording
The way this album starts is very promising: the guitar playing a repetitive riff in an ice cold tone, followed immediately by the rest of the instruments on a mid tempo (drums are yet very restrained here… oh wait, I said “yet”…) and after a while, vocals enter and they are exactly as I was expecting: rough and dark, screaming from time to time but in a monotonous intonation. When blast beats enter, they are very welcome, same as the lead guitar playing some tremolo non-stop by the end of the song… Very good start, it made me wait for the rest of the album with high expectations.
One thing I can notice, this is not about musical conventionalisms. The multiple changes in drum patterns, just like this was a journey about exploration and evolution, one second there are fuming blast beats and immediately after, the world seems to stop… I must say, it’s been a challenge for me to keep focused on these songs at times, because of the variety of things constantly running, but once the flow took me in, I began appreciating all of it.
Guitars sound evil, they play in a sinister tone, offering some wild riffs in an obscure tone. The bass is quite predominant, and this results in a dark and deep sound; this, along with some occasional guitar tremolo outbursts creates a freezing atmosphere. Vocals declaim in a monochord tone, dark and raspy from start to finish, a good offering for these songs.
What I’m listening to all through “Stardust Sermons” is raw and cold Black Metal; it’s like the songs are in constant evolution, so to say. The main feeling I have when I get lost into the music is abandonment; an unbearable desolation, feels like I’m swimming in an ocean of anguish… And at the same time, due to all the twists and turns in the songs pace, it’s like navigating on troubled waters. I appreciate all the different things put together in order to create a diverse sound, though I can feel it like “a bit too much” at times… and I can get lost a bit. There’s a lot of suffering that permeates the music, though. And this is what wins my heart in the end. For me it’s 7,5/10 Sílvia
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