I can not start to precise how refreshing it’s to listen to one thing like Lingua Ignota: Half 1. Intense, melodic, and brutal are a few of my favourite phrases to explain music that offers me frission – and I’m blissful to report that each one of that and far more might be mentioned of Persefone‘s latest launch.
Enticingly sophisticated and hauntingly beautiful, Lingua Ignota: Half 1 grips the listener from monitor one and does not let go. The band incorporates a swath of steel substances that should not work collectively and even praise each other – however Persefone discovered a option to make it occur. From guitar licks that remind me of solar flares to soundscaping that makes it really feel as if ghosts are crawling up the bed room partitions, Persefone delivers a pushed and thundercloud-dark album.
Large, choral interludes chop up blocks of impatiently marching melodeath riffs – all whereas the verses toy with timing and syncopation. Toss in cases of organ-like high notes, hardcore-inspired breakdowns, digital echoes, synth interludes, tightly-winding guitar solos and Lingua Ignota: Half 1 is a kitchen sink stuffed with concepts and efforts that ends in merely lovely, revolutionary songwriting.
Persefone sports activities a brand new vocalist for this album, Daniel Rodríguez Flys, who delivers remarkably effectively on each flexibility and tone. His growls are satisfying and ripping whereas his clear, drawn out phrases are spider web-like – robust sufficient to carry as much as the tune however are additionally by some means weak, delicate, and expressive.
It is a disgrace that the album solely sports activities 5 tracks. However fortunate for us, that is simply half one. I can not wait to listen to what half two brings us. Lingua Ignota: Half 1 is eerie and welcoming all of sudden. Sweeping moments raise tracks like “The Equable” out of the enigmatic moat into huge and open areas. The transition is damn-near breathtaking.
With various intensities that remind me of early Opeth, tracks vacillate from searing and heavy to lingering, pensive expressions of melody and aching. Sandwiched between the 2 dichotomies are anticipatory and compelling riffage. Lingua Ignota: Half 1 is an excellent instance of taking steel into new locations. Experimental and atmospheric selections in sound decorations usher the album into new territory. By including conventional steel parts laced along with intelligent tune writing, Persefone have crafted a genius, fashionable steel album.
