Shamael is back to scare the world.
Created in 2020 in Italy by Raffaele Galasso (all instruments/vocals, Gardenjia, Nightcrush), the Funeral Doom one-man band releases Melancholie Der Engel, its first album.
Through four long compositions, Shamael introduces us to desolated landscapes, a majestic coldness and a stunning slowness, supported by an unbeatable pain. The musician precisely exposes us his universe made of languor, touching melodies and crushing rage, that the soaring ambience put at the service of those screamed lyrics. Whether the sound is thick and full of a dissonant saturation or clean and worrying, the vocalist spreads us his sorrow and its distress, beginning with Leaf, the shortest of the four songs. The composition offers us foggy volutes that accompany screams on a heavy rhythmic, then Crown Shyness is more discrete and more mesmerizing. Keyboards shroud us while harmonics convey our mind before making us sink into this thick and dark sound, then Way of Woe plays on a seizing contrast between quietness and suffocating oppression. Those keyboards accompany us all along this oniric journey, that imperceptibly strengthen before leaving us on Moonsoon, a song that offers a storm before a rain of weighing emotions that morphs into a gloomy and heady beauty to finally choke us.
Shamael’s universe is made of suffering and sorrow. Melancholie Der Engel introduces us with a crushing languor some beautiful riffs, heightened by an ice-cold and melodic ambience.
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