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artist: Yellow Eyes
title: Confusion Gate
year: 2025
genre: Black Metal
type: Album
label: Gilead Media
language: English
rel. date: 2025-10-31
source: WEB/MP3
quality: CBR 320kbps / 44.1 kHz / Full Stereo
runtime: 01:00:59
size: 154.00MB
rip date: 2025-11-01
source url: https://www.deezer.com/album/841481932
tracklist:
1. Brush the Frozen Horse 9:14
2. The Thought of Death 8:31
3. Suspension Moon 7:25
4. i. Nocturne 1:12
5. A Forgotten Corridor 6:18
6. I Fear the Master's Murmur 8:02
7. ii. Beyond 1:04
8. The Scent of Black Mud 7:09
9. iii. The Entrance 2:23
10. Confusion Gate 9:41
release notes:
Yellow Eyes present their seventh full-length album, Confusion Gate,
blood relative of 2023's Master's Murmur.
An uncanny figure stands on the crest of a mountain, beckoning with a
milk-white hand. Suffused with unease, we climb, mysteriously unable to
stop. There must be somewhere to hide, out of his gaze. A place to
rest...
A second presence lurks. Seemingly unbound by terrestrial constraints,
the "widow" creeps down at night to explore the Earth, yearning for
"familiar light."
Lost is the traveler on the slope, at the whim of the unknown hour.
In their 15th year, Yellow Eyes push their distinctive style of Black
Metal a step further. Prominently displayed is their signature capacity
for contrast: colorful, unpredictable melody with violent power,
dissonance with anthemic beauty, harshness with warmth, impulsivity with
patience. But this album, the band's longest yet, is full of secrets.
Confusion Gate, though a singular release that stands entirely on its
own, toys with the listener by quoting abstractly from its sister album
Master's Murmur, transfiguring cryptic industrial folk into howling
Black Metal. Unexpectedly veering into a rephrased melody or lyric, or
presenting a familiar idea upside down, Confusion Gate hides its
deceptions in plain sight.
A new emphasis on folkloric simplicity and visceral sadness, as well as
ethereal ornamentations of synth and medieval instruments, serve as
staging grounds for some of Yellow Eyes's most haunting material to
date.
Guided by a chorus of voices, from the whispered false comforts of the
wraith "widow" to the utterances of the master himself at the entrance
of the gate, Yellow Eyes trace an epic journey from the "pine-filth" of
the lowlands to the eerie meadow at the mountain's summit.
The third presence that stalks Confusion Gate is also its most sinister-
time itself. Perhaps this release from the old hands in Yellow Eyes is
actually something of an admission. Perhaps they themselves have caught
a first glimpse of the face on the mountain.