We are sinking deeper and deeper.
Buried under the enormous weight of darkness
my wistful screams resound within the endless halls of dying hope.
“We are submerged by the Neverrealm - conceived with our own minds,
built with our own hands and kept alive with our own lies.“
All attempts to break the waves are in vain.
There is no sun, only ghost lights deceiving our eyes.
Led on trails we never wanted to wander forever,
Forged within the ocean abyss of our own ignorance,
we‘re doomed to live within the sunken ruins of the Netherworld.
We are in search for remnants of better days.
The splinters we find amidst the ruins are shattered dreams of hope.
We sing of a world in which we never wandered,
in tongues we never spoke and with a song we never learned.
On ne frappe pas un homme à terre : c'est ce que dit la règle mais NONE a déjà prouvé qu'il ne les suivait pas et si son album éponyme retirait toute perspective de béatitude spirituelle, Life has gone on long enough, son deuxième opus, nous interdit l'accès au bonheur terrestre. La vie n'a aucune substance et la production plus distante le confirme. Le DSBM s'empare de textures sonores blues, mettant en relief une dépression urbaine. Les cris partent en fumées : ne restent que les pleurs... Jordan Vauvert
Gaerea's first release of "Unsettling Whispers" was in 2018, and since, they dared define a "black metal" niche of their own, they dared to walk a new path and stir shit up a bit in the realm of BM, this album is a masterpiece and a milestone proving that it can be done, provided the band can pull it off, and they did, oh they did! Gloomy, dark, post-BM sludgy whatever, it's Gaerea, and this one belongs in my BC collection, the end. sachavonkarl74
The atmosphere of this album is fantastic. Makes you feel like you're knee-deep in the trenches drenched in mud, filth, sweat, and blood. Truly encapsulates the horrors of World War I, and the fact that the lyrics of some of the songs are taken from old war letters really adds to the authenticity.
Favorite Track(s): Die Feuertaufe, Grabenlieder edoerfler