A highly personal album that uses the claustrophobic, insular nature of sludge to explore grief. It is extraordinary how the nihilistic, impenetrable nature of extreme metal is twisted and subverted to articulate the feeling of losing someone who has defined your life. It is a bleak record that uses noises in a cathartic manner. There is no hope here, just despair and longing regret, and it is dynamically atmospheric in the way that it all builds. Raw and traumatic, it is an astonishingly dark and inward looking experience.

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