I wasn't meant to be there, I barely felt i was.
I never meant to lay my head, on a stranger's lap.
These walls were always naked, my smell could never stick.
My gut was always the black void where all your bullets go to sleep.
Buried mouth deep in the swamp, forever silent.
Smothered by the crowd but never a part of it.
No place ever felt quite familiar,
like the feeling of dread that comes back when no one else does.
All your smiling, blurry faces, all these gazes - were never a home to me.
All your holy gods and saviors, all their graces - were never a home to me.
All these dinner tables, full of strangers - they were never a home to me.
And the cold embrace of those who raised me, it was never a home to me.
A truly stellar death/doom album with heavy doses of black metal. Tracks like Isolation, Child of Light, and Broken Hymns deliver the sorrowful and icy tone of this album, elevated by the stirring cello compositions of Raphael Weinroth-Browne. The album delivers a deeply satisfying crescendo in Becoming Intangible before stirring the soul once again with Epilogue. Matt Richardson
Joseph Hawker subverts the musical and sociopolitical status quo with a black metal triptych that's as incendiary as it is impressionistic. Bandcamp New & Notable Jan 5, 2022
Gaerea's first release of "Unsettling Whispers" was in 2018, and since, they dared define a "black metal" niche of their own, they dared to walk a new path and stir shit up a bit in the realm of BM, this album is a masterpiece and a milestone proving that it can be done, provided the band can pull it off, and they did, oh they did! Gloomy, dark, post-BM sludgy whatever, it's Gaerea, and this one belongs in my BC collection, the end. sachavonkarl74