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Canadian melodic black metallers Crystal Coffin will release their sophomore album entitled The Starway Eternal via A Beast In The Field on the 15th of October. Crystal Coffin are playing together since 2017. The band consists of Aron Shute (vocals, bass), Lenkyn Ostapovich (guitars, vocals, synths, piano, balalaika), and Rob Poirier (drums). Crystal Coffin is influenced by the progressive black sounds of Enslaved and Wolves In The Throne Room, the straightforward aggression of High On Fire, and the haunting keyboard work of Fabio Frizzi.
Massive and mesmerizing, The Starway Eternal continues Crystal Coffin's contemplation of worldly struggle and the fine line one can find between hope and hopelessness. Cast against the historical realities of the Chernobyl power plant meltdown of 1986, the assumed protagonist - an operator at the power plant - discovers the portal way behind an inoperable console and soon finds that her longing for meaning in this chaotic world answers the opportunity to seek out the purported gods and angels that live among the cosmos in our known solar system. To find such entities would be to imbue a sense of importance in our collective existence beyond the daily disorder and existential despair that one accepts. Her trips into various corners of space reveal little to no such beings, and during one such fruitless endeavour, her portal way back to earth is shut permanently; reactor 4 at Chernobyl back on earth has suffered its meltdown during shutdown operation. Frantic, she makes the decision to return to earth by falling through the fiery atmosphere as a lonely, final and futile act of desperation. Of course, survival is impossible, and such an act becomes a metaphor for our time wandering the earth with little connection to anything beyond the physical world.
Crystal Coffin's compositions suitably follow that awe-inspiring arc, collectively comprising the band's best and most adventurous work to date. Musically, The Starway Eternal was written during the lockdown months of spring-into-summer 2020 and rehearsed as restrictions started easing into the autumn. Begin travelling with the brand-new track "Shapeshifter Huntsman" by clicking play below. Link
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