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Finnish atmospheric/funeral doom metal band Arche is about to release a new album, Transitions. While the album will see the light of day on 16 December via Transcending Obscurity Records, the first (15-and-a-half-minute-long) single, "Reverential Silence", is already available for listening, also in the player below.
It's taken Arche seven years to perfect this follow-up album, and although its slow and perhaps minimalist music style isn't for everyone, it is right up there with the best ones of a kind.
From the country that gave us some of the earliest and best-known doom metal bands as Thergothon, Skepticism and Shape Of Despair, we have the unheralded gem in Arche - giving its own masterful touches to that sound. Its music is an immaculate expression of ethereal, moving, atmospheric doom metal, which has everything in the right proportions. It's impeccably balanced, with just the right amount of emotive appeal when too many bands overindulge in oppressive melodrama and the heavier influences remain seamlessly integrated into the sound instead of coming across as forced and sticking out abruptly. As if having a mind and heart of its own, the music flows uninterruptedly and finds its own path and remains content with it, keeping up the slow yet constant pace through the ups and downs of life. The most endearing quality about this record, however, is just how sincere it sounds, and when it comes to sentimental music of this sort, there is nothing more important. It reeks of pure understated class. Link
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