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Artist......: Labor of the Negative
Album.......: The Triumph of Time and the Disillusioned
Year........: 2026
Genre.......: Black Metal
Type........: Album
Label.......: I, Voidhanger Records
Language....: English
Source......: WEB/FLAC (24bit)
Quality.....: 1653kbps / 44.1 kHz / Stereo
Tracks......: 7 tracks
Playtime....: 00:34:01
Size........: 403.9 MiB
R.Date......: 2026-08-07
S.Date......: 2026-08-07
Url.........: https://open.qobuz.com/album/ga38g2n6l9g9a
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 2:24
Dream
06. Epoché V 5:36
07. Epoché VI 4:59
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.