Mesarthim's "Absence" sports not only one of the strangest album titles of the year but also perhaps it's grandest, most-sweeping melodies. What we have here is atmospheric black metal of the space kind at the pinnacle of the form - it's loaded to the brim with lush keyboards that paint awestruck pictures of distant galaxies. But the album, a missive from an ultimately doomed probe into the farthest reaches of the universe, also bears a heavy heart
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The album title is "Absence" in Morse code.
The song titles are Morse code for the numbers from 1 (".----") til 6 ("-....").
Limited to 100 copies.
Shortness and fluency always characterizes Mesarthim's music that results always never complex, and accessible. One example is the fifth track, the most lively and soundly, less diluted in duration, compressed between keyboard circular turns and voice explosions. Above all, the desire, hidden in the darkness of an unleavened night, is to envelop, to engage, the listeners into the mystery of a sound experience that we could define, accordingly with post Black metal universe of possibile combinations: "sound space metal": vast electronic landscapes crossed by warm and astral black metal filtered waves. A surrounding experience indeed.