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/:: Artist :: Stellar Forest ::\
:: Album :: Stellar Forest ::
:: Year :: 2025 ::
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:: . Genre :: Black Metal Source :: MCD . ::
:: Label :: Transcendance R.date :: 2025-02-28 ::
_::__ Cat.nr. :: S.date :: 2025-01-10 __::_
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. Size :: 57.54 MB .
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https://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Stellar_Forest
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:: 1. I 4:24 ::
:: 2. II 3:34 ::
:: 3. III 4:57 ::
:: 4. IV 5:44 ::
:: 5. V 6:29 ::
:: 6. VI 4:09 ::
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:: blast beats and break beats meet in this realm of black metal / ::
:: trance techno sound. ::
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:: Stellar Forest may be new but members Erroiak (vocals) and ::
:: Septev (all instruments) come with a lot of experience in black ::
:: metal, atmospheric black metal and dark ambient, and various ::
:: combinations of these genres. It's no surprise then that this ::
:: EP merges elements of these aforementioned styles into a hybrid ::
:: blackened techno / ambient synthesis, and moreover one that ::
:: manages to be savage and hard-hitting, noisy and cold, and at ::
:: the same time icy-glossy and polished, and trance-inducing, in ::
:: a way that electronic pop can be. Searing, burning tremolo BM ::
:: guitars, furious blast-beat percussion and spidery roaring, ::
:: rasping vocals meet a barrage of glacial dark ambient, ::
:: minimalist coldwave melody, glitch electronics and breakbeats: ::
:: the range of influences and inspirations brought by Erroiak and ::
:: Septev are mind-boggling but across all six tracks of the EP ::
:: the black metal elements are clearly defined and help to anchor ::
:: the varieties of non-metal music that pass through. ::
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:: Tracks are numbered I to VI and can be treated as being mostly ::
:: instrumental, as Erroiak's screaming, wailing vocals tend more ::
:: to be one of various layers of sonic texture in each and every ::
:: track. At just under 30 minutes, the EP plays as a soundtrack ::
:: to a futuristic science fiction film just waiting to be made, ::
:: once the Stellar Forest men give their thumbs up to such a ::
:: project. The noisy scourging BM guitars and pounding drums may ::
:: be upfront across most tracks but the synthesisers and ::
:: electronics fill the spaces behind them, presenting a ::
:: soundscape made intriguing, mysterious and complex by all the ::
:: contrasts of its component musics and their interactions ::
:: between and among one another. ::
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:: As the EP continues, the music becomes more and more dreamy and ::
:: trance-inducing, as breakbeats and ambient drones start ::
:: competing for equal attention with the BM elements, sometimes ::
:: superseding them altogether (as on track III), and often it ::
:: seems as if all the angels in Heaven and the demons in Hell ::
:: have come together in one Almighty rave that ranges over the ::
:: length and breadth of the known cosmos. While parts of the ::
:: music can be ugly and savage, and melancholy can be found ::
:: (especially on track 5), the overall impression is of a ::
:: sweeping glacial and abstract beauty that can be ethereal and ::
:: spiritual, and which is not usually malevolent though neither ::
:: is it completely benign. In all of this, Erroiak and Septev do ::
:: not forget that melody, riff and proper song composition ::
:: matter, and all songs feature these structural constituents, ::
:: even if in unusual ways. ::
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:: A most singular sound universe of sweeping cold beauty, ::
:: terrifying and confronting, yet breathtaking in its scope and ::
:: ambition, beckons to all who might dare enter the Stellar ::
:: Forest realm. ::
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