Graal - Angelfell
From Ohio we get electricity so we can see the rubbish, gravestones talking to worms and other foolishness: there are no silly things, let alone light things, in this amazing album, in which shreds of the Middle Ages have endured and relied on a modern pessimistic feeling, between romance with a broken smile and Gothic Rock as an official controlling the souls of a troubled world.
This is a work that is to be blessed and held in our heart: if there are cracks he will show you his beautiful ones, in a game of pain that will appear completely compact. We have to befriend it, the atmospheres are charged with glacial propensities towards the North Pole, albeit without Coldwave elements, but it is really cold in these grooves: fear, despair, loneliness make it a black enchantment that will fly, low, into our craters.
Alex Dematteis
Musicshockworld
Salford
12th January 2023
https://graalofficial.bandcamp.com/album/angelfell