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Artist......: Maladie
Album.......: ...Symptoms II...
Year........: 2019
Genre.......: Black Metal
Type........: EP
Label.......: Apostasy Records
Language....: English
Source......: WEB/FLAC (16bit)
Quality.....: 813kbps / 44.1 kHz / Stereo
Tracks......: 4 tracks
Playtime....: 00:34:46
Size........: 217.1 MiB
R.Date......: 2026-07-06
S.Date......: 2019-09-27
Url.........: https://open.qobuz.com/album/vomrklf3553yb
01. Vulnus - Drowning in Lethal Wounds 11:00
02. Abicere - Bleeding Scars 4:36
03. Discidium - The Return of Nothingness 14:44
04. 40 - Rev. 1979 4:26
The band's fifth release, Symptoms II, is another "EP" -
albeit one that's still almost thirty-five minutes long
- consisting of just four songs, two of which stretch
past the ten-minute mark.
The first of these, "Vulnus - Drowning in Lethal Wounds"
is eleven minutes of epic, subtly blackened,
unexpectedly doomy Progressive Metal that lands
somewhere between Vintersorg/Borknagar and Swallow the
Sun/October Tide, building from sombre, stately riffs
and bleak, blaring saxophone to slow, crushing chords
and guttural, growling vocals, before culminating in a
climactic passage of moodily melodic, folk-tinged Black
Metal fury.
"Abicere - Bleeding Scars" is a haunting, piano and
keyboard-based instrumental interlude that dwells on the
most mournful and melancholy aspect of the band's sound
before transitioning into the almost fifteen-minute long
"Discidium - The Return of Nothingness", which finds the
band exploring the doomier side of their nature in even
greater depth, deploying layers of desolate clean
vocals, anguished snarls, and harrowing growls over a
series of solemn, slow-motion riffs and stark, simmering
melodies, all building towards a shockingly strange
finale that's part avant-garde techno-jazz and part
abrasive Black Metal assault.
Culminating in the brooding, cinematic strains of "40 -
rev. 1979", whose blend of patient piano, staticky
electro-beats, and gorgeous female vocals (along with
just a touch of atmospheric tremolo work) makes it one
of the most interesting and unique songs in the band's
back-catalogue, Symptoms II is an intriguing diversion
from the core thread and focus of the group's main
discography, and one which allows them to explore a
different side of their already multi-faceted nature.