Apotheosis, by AETHYRICK

Apotheosis

by AETHYRICK

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H.L. AETHYRICK belong to the most atmospheric black metal bands I know and they also belong to a small bunch of bands which I recognize easily in each random playlist. The melodic mid-tempo black metal on "Apotheosis" is majestic and full of longing. And although the sound is rough and the guitars play sharp, the album spreads intense melancholy, it is black and beautiful, check for example "Rosary of Midnights". Favorite track: Rosary of Midnights.

Michael Hojjatie Read my review for ViaOmega here:

viaomega.com/articles/aethyrick-review Favorite track: In Blood Wisdom.

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	1.	The Starlit Altar 08:13
	2.	Rosary of Midnights 05:49
	3.	Flesh Once Divided 06:14
	4.	In Blood Wisdom 08:03
	5.	With Determined Steps 06:16
	6.	Path of Ordeal 07:01

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By now, astute practitioners of the black arts should be well aware of the existence of Aethyrick. Formed by Gall and Exile on the winter solstice 2016, Aethyrick's medium is black metal and their locale Finland, but over the course of two visionary albums for The Sinister Flame, 2018's Praxis and 2020's Gnosis, the duo have defiantly etched a unique headspace all their own. Bountifully brimming with magick and mysticism simultaneously aeons-old and strikingly modern, the band's first two albums served as cornerstones for how to honorably uphold tradtional all-caps BLACK METAL and feed it with a feverish creativity. Put another way, Aethyrick didn't abandon language altogether; rather, they spoke their own enrapturing dialect.

And "feverish" is an apt description of Aethyrick's ways and means, for soon arrives their third full-length spell, again through the auspices of The Sinister Flame: Apotheosis. As perfectly titled at this point in their majestic chronology as any, Apotheosis culminates Aethyrick's glorious march into the beyond - both punctuation, final and austere, and also as the opening of a new chapter. It sees the duo going from strength to strength, making no great changes to their enviously developed aesthetic, but suffusing it with ever-subtle expansions of atmosphere and songwriting nuance. Indeed, where the preceding Gnosis was a subtle refinement, Apotheosis makes that subtlety even more miniscule...and yet the sum effect feels grander, vaster, even liberating.

For here on Apotheosis do Aethyrick hold nothing back with their heartsrings-pulling melodicism. Never soft but neither categorically negative, their riffing and leads burst and sparkle with a passion and power that's truly blanching, and the ever-so-tasteful layer of synths gilding it give the record an especially ethereal aspect: open thy heart and one will feel the gust of ALL, the spirit-unshackling majesty of boundless illumination. Indeed, Apotheosis fully brims with the band's occult character, now many decades walking the Left-Hand Path, and immersion on the listener's part is all but assured. And bringing it full circle (or Ouroboros, if you will) is the absolutely gorgeous cover art courtesy of the masterful Timo Ketola, one of the final pieces he completed a week before his untimely death.

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released January 22, 2021

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AETHYRICK Finland

Formed by Gall and Exile on the winter solstice 2016, Aethyrick's medium is melodic black metal, methods uncomplicated and motives unknown.

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discography

Kolme Veljestä

Apr 2023
Pilgrimage

Mar 2022
Apotheosis

Jan 2021
Gnosis

Jan 2020
Solstice Cycle

Mar 2019
Praxis

Dec 2018

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