Advent Parallax - Averse Sefira

****

Neither as bitterly harsh nor as brutally technical as their last opus, Tetragrammatical Asytgmata, Advent Parallax instead focuses on something different: Musicianship. An album of well constructed and supremely executed songs, songs that breathe and bloom, expanding under Sanguine Mapsama’s carefully woven, cyclonic riffs and backed by the storming yet articulate drum work of The Carcass. Sanguine’s vocals are also to be commended, for while they follow the stereotypical rasping screams of most Black metal, he inflects them just so, making them much more discernable than most. The bass too deserves praise for while Wrath Sathariel Diabolus’s lines may not be of the highest order, they are mixed perfectly and carried out with competence. Do not however, take all this to mean this is another bland dose of Melodic Black metal. It’s full of all the abrasiveness and ice bitten edge you could want, it’s just given room to grow under excellent production and crafty, superior writing. Forget that Averse Sefira are American, and just bask in the glow of this glorious album. Recommended.


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