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artist: Labor of the Negative
title: The Triumph of Time and the Disillusioned
year: 2026
genre: Black Metal
type: Album
label: I, Voidhanger Records
language: English
rel. date: 2026-08-07
source: WEB/MP3
quality: CBR 320kbps / 44.1 kHz / Joint Stereo
runtime: 00:34:01
size: 78.0 MiB / 7 tracks
rip date: 2026-08-07
source url: https://open.qobuz.com/album/ga38g2n6l9g9a
tracklist:
01. Epoché I 3:54
02. Epoché II 5:24
03. Epoché III 6:05
04. Epoché IV 5:39
05. 151 - The Eternal Present and the Endless Dream 2:24
06. Epoché V 5:36
07. Epoché VI 4:59
release notes:
LABOR OF THE NEGATIVE is an international project based in Portugal, the
UK, Norway and Egypt, dealing with philosophy and literature. The name of
the project is inspired on something they read in the preface of Hegel's
Phenomenology of Spirit: "The life of God and divine cognition may well
be spoken of as a disporting of love with itself; but this idea sinks
into mere edification, and even insipidity, if it lacks the seriousness,
the suffering, the patience, and the labor of the negative."
The name of the band's first full-length album, "The Triumph of Time and
the Disillusioned," is instead inspired by Händel's piece entitled "The
Triumph of Time and Disillusion."
With such premises, it is easy to imagine how LABOR OF THE NEGATIVE's
black metal sounds harsh and intellectual, adventurous and creative, dark
and illuminating, all at the same time. A philosophical investigation
inspired by a wealth of different thinkers like Epicurus, Hegel, Hume,
Nietzsche, Kierkegaard and Durkheim, musically "The Triumph of Time and
the Disillusioned" is rooted in the avant-garde black metal of VIRUS,
ARCTURUS and DODHEIMSGARD, among the others.
In LABOR OF THE NEGATIVE's hands, the most feral black metal is
infiltrated by schizoid and hallucinatory vocals that give a theatrical
aura to the whole thing, often echoed by the equally twisted and venomous
sounds of a trumpet. The result makes "The Triumph of Time and the
Disillusioned" a complex, layered, and one-of-a-kind work.