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Dutch folk/black metal Alburnum has announced that its striking debut album, Buitenlucht, will be released on 8 July via Babylon Doom Cult Records on CD and cassette tape formats. The vinyl version should follow by the end of the year.
Started as a solo project by multi-instrumentalist D.B., Alburnum evolved into a two-piece featuring R.v.R. (Faceless Entity et al.) in the months leading up to the recording of Buitenlucht. Mixed and mastered by W. Damiaen (Laster et al.) at Catacomben Studios, Tilburg, the four songs that make up their debut album establish Alburnum as a promising new act to keep track of in the Dutch underground.
On its first full-length offering, Alburnum showcases its brand of folk-influenced black metal with sweeping melodic riffs, propulsive drums, and alternating harsh and clean vocals - a stylistic approach that emphasizes melancholy over aggression and which may be reminiscent of folk/black titans like Drudkh and Windir as well as fellow Dutch acts like Fluisteraars and Iskandr.
Lyrically, Alburnum does not delve into themes of paganism and folklore that are common to the genre. Instead, Buitenlucht took form as a personal meditation on depression, grief, and tribulation, conceptualized during countless solitary walks in nature - a story of which this is but the first chapter. Note that Alburnum does not glorify depression but acknowledges it: the underlying current is that there is light, no matter how far away, and that winter will, eventually, turn to spring.
Following its debut release, audiences can expect more material from Alburnum to emerge in the coming years. The seeds have been sown and are only just starting to sprout.
In the meantime, hear the first released track from the Buitenlucht album, "Euwig Licht". Link
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