MOONREICH – Pillars Of Detest (digipak CD edition, 2015)

Label: Les Acteurs de l´Ombre Productions – AO-033
Format: Digipak CD
Country: France
Released: 19 September 2015
Genre: Metal
Style: Black metal

From beginning to end, their third full-length Pillars of Detest is intent on embellishments of rhythmic versatility, contrasts of intensity, contemplation, and ‘jumping’ genre for death and thrash metal components whenever it suits the imagination…and never suffering for it.This is the most compelling and listenable album, while never cheapening itself with undue sentiment or fits of happiness. It’s dark, but somehow strangely accessible. Riffs can crawl through a morose landscape, as pitch as blackest night, glinting of melodies while the drums jam along at a prog rock pace, and then the band can explode into atypical blasted rhythms in which they still manage to embed a little nuance and distinction. recommended for fans of modern French black metal scene as Malevolentia, Blut Aus Nord, Carach Angren, Anorexia Nervosa, Deathspell Omega.