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Belgian industrial/ambient black metal outfit Lhaäd has announced 20 March as the release date for its second album, Beneath. The album will come out via Amor Fati Productions in conspiracy with Extraconscious Records on CD and vinyl. The first album's track, "Beneath V", is already out and awaits you in the player below.
Hailing from the currently thriving Belgian black metal scene, Lhaäd is a part of the esteemed Nox Entity collective, including Entartung, Rituals Of The Dead Hand, and Wolven. To understand Lhaäd, one must dissect the band's phonetically and visually unique moniker: an anagram of "hadal". The hadal zone, also known as the hadopelagic zone, is the deepest region of the ocean, lying within oceanic trenches. The name comes from Hades, the ancient Greek god of the underworld. Fittingly, Lhaäd brings the same - incredibly vast darkness and tension as if they were to capture and take you to the ocean floor, deep within the largest abysses.
Such was the sound of the band's 2021 debut album, Below, but Lhaäd goes even deeper and darker with the follow-up Beneath. The band's framework of martial/cosmic hypnosis is well and accounted for - namely, classic Thorns and Darkspace - but main man Lykormas here evinces an engaging, almost-ceremonial aspect that brings forth ominous beauty to the no-doubt-dark deluge; perhaps one could make a parallel in this respect to his post-metal titans Hemelbestormer. Tempos thus span the slower end of the spectrum - trudging, ominous, huge - as frequently as the ultraviolent, altogether making for a slipstream that's deceptively melodic and even tragically blissful. Too, the aquatic element is even more pronounced on Below, as cold and caustic riffs undulate and overlap like currents of the ocean, seemingly infinite in possibility but always with the portent of everlasting darkness.
True to its title, Beneath is a six-song/40-minute experience of going under the Below. Lhaäd plays hadopelagic black metal exclusively! Link
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