Each time I look down from the starlit skies
Each time I see your dreams start to crystallize
Heaving your stone up the streams and paths you trod
Not knowing your faith will be surmounted by the gods
Your toil brings meaning to your life
An endless cycle that will never suffice
Even though your stones have become back breaking
Your lust for life still can never be taken
Elucidating your punishment
Finding the joy in the pain of your torment
Gaerea's first release of "Unsettling Whispers" was in 2018, and since, they dared define a "black metal" niche of their own, they dared to walk a new path and stir shit up a bit in the realm of BM, this album is a masterpiece and a milestone proving that it can be done, provided the band can pull it off, and they did, oh they did! Gloomy, dark, post-BM sludgy whatever, it's Gaerea, and this one belongs in my BC collection, the end. sachavonkarl74
Absolutely strong, black and bitter, like a cup of good old coffee or a properly packed pipe of strong tobacco. The album won't let you go unless you listen through it since the very first minute to the very last one, sunken in the frozen obsydian abyss. 10/10. lanserger22