Botgörelsen, Wrekan and Astral Lore come together to release a three-way split album of Austerity, Despondency & Longing. Raw and bleak black metal from the underground.
Some may be familiar with Botgörelsen already through their debut album which was released previously on Onism, and you can expect more of that Swedish sound here, with the two tracks expanding further on their emotional and folkloric approach.
Wrekan is also a one-man project from Sweden, and inject something harsher and more anti-life into the split. Whilst the international project of Astral Lore present a single 17-minute long song of sprawling intensity and dark atmosphere to close off this black metal triarchy.
“If there were no eternal
consciousness in a man,
if at the bottom of
everything there were only
a wild ferment,
a power that twisting
in dark passions
produced everything
great or inconsequential;
if an unfathomable,
insatiable emptiness
lay hid beneath everything,
what would life be but despair?”
- Fear & Trembling, Søren Kierkegaard