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Today, Greek black metallers Diablery stream the entirety of their highly anticipated second album, Candles, set for release on 17 December via Saturnal Records. Listen to Diablery's Candles in the player below.
Hailing from Athens, Greece, Diablery was formed in 2008, with guitarist Nimerius and vocalist/guitarist Setesh being the core members of the band. After almost a decade of restlessness and member changes, the lineup was solidified with the additions of bassist XII and drummer Merenhor.
Diablery now returns with their grandest statement yet: Candles. Simply and elegantly titled, Candles marks both a refinement and rebirth of the Diablery sound. Here, the band eschew some of the more familiar symphonic black metal tropes that marked their earlier work for something that, while being still distinctly (and proudly) black metal, aims for a parallel cosmos that's just as awe-inspiring... if not more so! Their physicality bleeds through everything here, sounding very much like a real band, performing together as one entity. "Live performances embody the raw power of black metal, as long as they further darkness and spiritual light," says the band, which has seen Diablery tour across Greece, Germany, Norway, Bulgaria and the Netherlands and emboldening the skyscraping songwriting they so effortlessly unfurl here. It's an epic album, to be sure, clocking in at 66 minutes - forever-surging/winding corridors of night sky sound and literally breathtaking melody ensure that listening is swift and satisfying. More simply, Candles is a great black metal record that aims for the essence - black metal, above all - and betrays a wealth of imagination within. Link
Candles tracklist:
1. Three Torches Lit
2. Sanguine Emissions Of Aeonic Ecstasy
3. Spiral Ascension Of Becoming
4. The Star-Veiled Face
5. The Coming Fog
6. The Piercing Ice
7. Moonlit Dome Revealed
8. The Earth Covered My Face
9. The Core That Burns Forever
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