After stunning everybody with their debut EP ‘Radiant Gloom’ Germanys Vorga has returned with their first Full-Length album, Striving Toward Oblivion is a technical gleaming Black metal journey to the stars and beyond.
Whilst many of their contemporaries hide their musicianship behind middling production. Vorga’s music gleams and bristles with crystalline clarity and shines and highlights their exemplary musicianship and an ear for the memorable.
The style is streamlined and rampant with aggression “Death Manifesting’’ is ferocious as it is memorable its riffing huge and at times ethereal yet grounded in the basis of furious Black Metal. It is atmospheric without the usual tropes or cliches, a finely crafted vision of anger and power. “Taken’’ steamrolls its way through your senses an epic six-minute presentation of speed and prowess.
‘’Last Transmission’’ is a sonic juggernaut that excels in its speed, it is riffing at times off-kilter, dissonate in creating its own existence as it attempts to flee the chaos tied to it.
“Stars My Destination” is simply more excellent melodious technical black metal dripping in power and fury yet searching and pursuing different and unique musical dimensions. Evocative yet direct.
Quite simply Striving Toward Oblivion is supremely heavy, extreme, and a technically stunning album.
Lean and exciting, Multifaceted, and terrifyingly intense, it may be termed sci-fi, but Vorga invokes a primal visceral response. A totally immersive highly recommended experience.
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Release Year: 2022
Label: Transcending Obscurity Records
Category: Album
Country: Germany
Reviewed by Sparky
