Cinders white like driven snow
This charnel ditch where comrades fall
To appease the clockwork machine
Blood-rusted under crimson sheen
Hunkered down in make-shift holes
They shiver like winter-born foals
Few remain eager to fight
Anticipating the inevitable strike
Frostbitten fingers clench weapons rusted
by exposure to adverse, inclement elements
A gust of an ill-wind brings the stench
of decaying amputations into the camp
Artillery that deafens with a shroud of silence
Causing other trialed senses to tense
Tactics and logistics of deadlocked advance
Told the life of a horse supersedes that of man
Decorations in light of what they lost
Silver Star, Croix de Guerre, Iron Cross
A puppeteers' war fought using pawns
A continent burning while industry crowed
Treachery hidden by black ink's gloss
An epidemic forcing hands of the clock
Remission of the combat abattoir
Til the dawn of the next great war
Mikolaj is a real multi-talent in bass as well as guitar as well as vocals and "Darkside" Maciej's drumming is a well-calibrated 100th-of-seconds-clockwork. Not for nothing is Mgla considered as a standard for a lot of other blacker-than-black metal bands. I hope to see this band live once..... grote_smurf
Swirling guitars, furious drums, vocals that at the same time howl from infinite distance and are right up in your head; everything put into dissonant form with the help of unconventional songwriting. This album is my personal key to the icelanding black metal madness that I've ignored for way too long! Lukas Kaufmann
Very late to the party, but for several years I've found melodic black metal all too similar and all albums sounding like Dissection, etc... HOWEVER, not only I am back into it but UADA is still a layer of complexity above the main baseline and this is an old album worth having, that's a basic milestone in UADA's discography and I felt it needed to be part of my BC collection. sachavonkarl74
The metal’s band revelatory new record crosses genres and styles, effortlessly combining seemingly incompatible subgenres. Bandcamp Album of the Day Apr 26, 2024
Gaerea's first release of "Unsettling Whispers" was in 2018, and since, they dared define a "black metal" niche of their own, they dared to walk a new path and stir shit up a bit in the realm of BM, this album is a masterpiece and a milestone proving that it can be done, provided the band can pull it off, and they did, oh they did! Gloomy, dark, post-BM sludgy whatever, it's Gaerea, and this one belongs in my BC collection, the end. sachavonkarl74