Aara is still very regular.
Since their creation in 2018 in Switzerland by Berg (instruments) and Fluss (lyrics/vocals), the band offers us an album every year. Triade I: Eos, the third, is just out.
Accompanied by J. on drums, the band stays true to its musical basis: an ice-cold and seizing Atmospheric Black Metal. Six songs for three quarters of an hour of an as soaring as melodic but as aggressive as ghostly sound, full of visceral and abyssal deep howlings. Riffs seem to directly draw from the void, offering tearing melodies while keyboards shroud us into this surrealistic veil, melting majestic tones with a painful oppression. We however notice some elements that give songs their own identity, like this clean sounding break from Fathum, allowing us to breath again before sinking into this lake of darkness, haunting and mesmerizing tones of Tantalusqal and the brutal acceleration on Naufragus before the end of the song. Leads become more and more aggressive, as proof there is the mystical Nimmermehr, of which terrific howlings compete with Death itself, then the band invokes the darknest damnation on Das Wunder and its fast-paced riffs. Even when choirs increase, blackness still lives. The apocalypse seems to be near with the tragic accents on Effugium, the last song, that digs deeper into this painful and heady basis to be sure that no one gets out untouched from this experience. Beware the end of the break.
As always, Aara offers a black and apocalyptic album. Triade I: Eos seems to be the beginning of an adventure into decay, hatred and violence, that will happen inside of a devastating landscape without a single hint of hope.
95/100
