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Artist......: Endlyset
Album.......: Eyes Inside
Year........: 2025
Genre.......: Black Metal
Type........: Album
Label.......: Independent
Language....: English
Source......: WEB/FLAC (16bit)
Quality.....: 992kbps / 44.1 kHz / Stereo
Tracks......: 7 tracks
Playtime....: 00:35:59
Size........: 256.1 MiB
R.Date......: 2026-07-04
S.Date......: 2025-12-19
Url.........: https://open.qobuz.com/album/ulnjql7yq6cek
01. Eyes Inside 5:05
02. Undergång 5:42
03. Skuggsjälar 4:32
04. The Curse 4:53
05. F├╢rnimmelser 3:27
06. Endlyset 6:14
07. I Nattens Våld 6:06
The Swedish duo ENDLYSET present their first album in
their sixth year of existence. Almost 36 minutes of
Swedish Black Metal somewhere between raw substance,
atmospheric expansion and the cool restraint that so
often characterizes Scandinavian releases of this style.
The album Eyes Inside announces the reflective,
introspective descent into the dark zones of being:
misanthropy, death, inner emptiness. Big words, familiar
motifs. The question is not whether darkness is present
- but what kind of darkness will consume the listener.
The first round begins with anticipation. You retreat,
close the door, leave room for the cold. But what
unfolds is less night than twilight. No fall, no sudden
abyss, but a persistent twilight, steady, almost
cautious. The sound is flat, which is not surprising in
an underground context, but the lack of depth is a
limitation here. The guitars dominate the picture, but
remain aloof. The drums are clearly drawn, but without
weight - they support, but do not press. Emotional
distance sets in.
With "Undergång" the bass takes center stage. Finally a
line that the sound follows. It runs through the song
like a dark thread, structuring it and holding together
what would otherwise threaten to dissipate. And indeed:
the bass remains the most striking element throughout
the entire album, the most reliable signal in the
semi-darkness. The riffs, on the other hand, seem
interchangeable, the drums functional, the vocals vague
- more inkling than presence. Not bad. Not inspiring.
Here too: twilight.
With "Skuggsjälar" or "Förnimmelser" the atmosphere
changes somewhat. Lead guitars emerge, melodies briefly
shimmer like ice under thin snow. The vocals sometimes
leave the familiar barking behind and attempt solemn,
almost imploring passages. But here too, everything
remains in limbo: not intense enough to really
captivate, not weird enough to disturb. The rawness
remains restrained, the atmospheric too pale to really
create depth. Towards the end, with "Endlyset" and "I
Nattens Våld", the fusion of atmosphere and rawness is
more successful. The long intros create space, tension,
a sense of space and landscape. When the rawness sets in
here, it seems organic, not artificial. For the first
time, atmosphere and heaviness intertwine without
neutralizing each other - as if the album had to reach
this point first.
ENDLYSET have their own sound signature, their own
style, their own mood. The succinct bass remains the
central guiding line throughout the entire album, and
the sound develops through its clarity. The drums stand
less for dynamics than for the stability, the structure
and support that provides the songs. The vocals are
varied, from grumbling sounds to individual, solemn
passages to snappy barks.
ENDLYSET promise Nordic-cool Black Metal between rawness
and atmosphere. This promise will not be broken, but it
will not be kept either. Only towards the end does the
concept come together into something tangible. What
remains is an album with its own signature, individual
strong moments and a lot of unused space. Solid,
audible, respectable. Eyes Inside remains solid,
controlled, reserved for long stretches - and that is
exactly where its weakness lies.