From their debut EP “Aporia”, released in 2020 German Black Metal act Nocturnis are not afraid to pursue the more unexplored areas of extreme music. Their debut album Unsegen weaves melancholy with the barbaric into a cohesive concept.
Unsegen tells the story of a young soldier in the First World War, who is driven by his conscience into a no less harrowing inner struggle due to the atrocities he has experienced, which he ultimately loses.
What Nocturnis are able to do across the six tracks is tell this story with a sense of inevitability that is coherent and intense.
At times pure black metal the tremolo and the savage warlike march that is Unsegen II is only tempered by the dissonant chaos that is its predecessor Unsegen I, yet is it the introspection of ‘’Niedergang’’ (Decline) that the melancholy enters the fray to its fullest, the textures layered and purposeful and yet its decline into tremolo filled madness matches that of the character, inexorable, agonising and unpreventable
Unsegen is appropriately tormented and filled with mayhem yet is it also infused with pain and conscience. ‘’Zerrissenheit’’ and its inner turmoil is the fitting coda, its slower rhythms matched with the band’s signature blistering pace. The genuine subject matter is more horrific than any demon, it represents the struggles of man’s actions and his failure to move past or reconcile them. The Black Metal on offer is pure, unfiltered, and relentless in its assault, the perfect metaphor for the torments for the inner subconsciousness where the respite is brief and the horror a constant companion.
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Release Year: 2022
Label: MDD Records
Category: Album
Country: Germany
Reviewed by Sparky
