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Rising from its moss-covered crypt, Cauchemar is back with its third full-length, Rosa Mystica, the band's first offering since 2019's Trapped Under Ice compilation. The album will be released on 16 May by Temple of Mystery Records on CD and vinyl LP formats, with the cassette tape version following later this year.
Meticulously composed and rehearsed to perfection, the album is a fully realized expression of Cauchemar's signature sound of sombre traditional doom delivered with the vigour of heavy metal. Perhaps owing to two of the members' recent migration from Montreal to rural Quebec, the atmosphere on Rosa Mystica is spacious and rustic, gilded by the warm glow of stained-glass luminescence through which cuts the burnished weight of François Patry's guitars. Settled within bassist Andres Arango and drummer Joël Ladouceur's vaulted geometry, the austere muscular riffs drive the songs, haunted by the spectral radiance of organs and Annick Giroux's French-language incantations.
Cauchemar's highly praised performances with Pagan Altar in 2019 reified the band's style, and Rosa Mystica - easily its most cohesive and complete - bears the confidence of a band that has come into its own.
Hear for yourself with the brand-new track "La sorcière" - right below. Link
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