DIABOLICAL
COUNTRY:
SWEDEN
GENRE: BLACKENED DEATH METAL
DIABOLICAL FULL STREAM OF THE NEW EP "UMBRA"!
[2016.07.05]
Swedish death black metallers
DIABOLICAL are extremely proud to present you all the full stream of
their new EP "Umbra", to be out on the 8th of July via
ViciSolum Productions. Do check out the stream of the EP "Umbra"
No Clean Singing
and Metalitalia.com!
[ Please help the band on spreading the word on this new piece of art and share
it out! ]
http://vicisolumrecords.com/album/umbra
NCS:
http://www.nocleansinging.com/2016/07/05/an-ncs-premiere-and-a-review-diabolical-umbra/
MetalItalia:
http://metalitalia.com/articolo/diabolical-ascolta-umbra-in-anteprima-su-metalitalia-com/
The Digipack cd is available at
DIABOLICAL official store along with many different new Tshirt designs:
http://store.diabolical.se/
http://vicisolumrecords.com/album/umbra
MORE ABOUT "UMBRA" EP:
"
DIABOLICAL’s new EP "Umbra" (...) is a multifaceted obsidian gem.
Atmospherically forbidding and possessed of a grim, doomed grandeur for most of
its length, Umbra is also savage — and at times wistful and meditative. It’s so
well-conceived and expertly performed that it has the capacity to carry
listeners away and hold them in thrall, while also triggering fierce surges of
adrenaline.
"Umbra" also reflects changes in style since the band’s last release, the
2013 concept album "Neogenesis". Gone are the symphonic arrangements and
massed choral voices, yet even in the absence of these elements the music is
still often shrouded in an aura of forbidding majesty — as well as implacable
menace.
This sense of dark, malignant majesty comes through powerfully in the EP’s
opening track, “Requiem“. The song is well-named, because there is also a
stately, funereal air in the song’s bleak, melancholy melody, its groaning bass
chords, and the slow, sinuous guitar solo that comes in the track’s back half.
Yet the swarming tremolo riffs and tyrannical vocals also suggest the presence
of an implacable evil.
“Diaspora” generates a thoroughly morbid atmosphere from the beginning.
Alternating within the song are slow, mournful chords of doom, tremolo riffing
that seethes like a nest of vipers being consumed by flames, and rapid jabbing
paired with a slow, eerie guitar lead.
The third track, “Tremor” bring a surprising change of pace, intensity,
and style. Nearly clean guitar notes that have a kind of Doppler effect in their
reverberation give the song a dreamlike air, a feeling that grows stronger as
the melody begins to glide, enhanced by a soulful guitar solo. It’s a melancholy,
wistful, meditative piece that for much of its length is accompanied by excerpts
from the late Jiddu Krishnamurti‘s Talks on Fear (eventually joined by
clean vocals).
DIABOLICAL close "Umbra" with the dynamism of “Decline“,
an ominous song launched with a bleak and barbarous assault. Laced with wisps of
eerie melody and including an interlude of gliding chords and sparkling guitar
notes as well as a mournful solo, the song proves to be as entrancing as it is
pummeling.
Though each of these songs is very strong standing alone, this really is an EP
best heard all the way through, from start to finish. In my humble opinion, it’s
one of
DIABOLICAL’s best releases yet.
Umbra will be released by
ViciSolum Productions on July 8. To pre-order the EP on CD, go
HERE or visit
Bandcamp, where a digital version is also available:
http://vicisolumrecords.com/album/umbra"
[ Text Taken from :
NO CLEAN SINGING
]
"Umbra" EP Tracklist:
1. Requiem
2. Diaspora
3. Tremor
4. Decline
PRE-ORDER "UMBRA" HERE:
http://store.diabolical.se
MORE INFO ON DIABOLICAL ON THE FOLLOWING LINKS:
OFFICIAL SITE:
HTTP://WWW.DIABOLICAL.SE
FACEBOOK PROFILE:
HTTP://WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/DIABOLICALOFFICIAL
YOUTUBE CHANNEL:
HTTP://WWW.YOUTUBE.COM/DIABOLICALOFFICIAL
GENERAL CONTACT: INFO@DIABOLICAL.SE
BOOKING CONTACT:
DAGNA@AKWENAMUSIC.COM
