CELESTIA - Apparitia - Sumptuous Spectre

Celestia is a band that an incompetent listener could describe as an old-style Black Metal Band, indeed "Apparitia" have an obvious connection with the early Norwegian material but they developed a music that capture a supernatural essence, bringing some of the Burzumish sad melodies to a parallel dimension. Every single element contribute to this immersion in this mood, the sound choice could be not the most immediate thing to understand, the guitars are a bit on the background and the drums are played with the intent to bring the listener to different mental perceptions, fast where necessary but more varied in the majority of this album, a very unusual but interesting choice is the one of "Wandering Throught the Past Memories... where guitars and drums worked perfectly to create an original song.

What capture my attention is the ability to lead their music to ethereal horizons and visions, hallucinated and sick melodies full of melancholic decadence without leaving apart the typical grim rawness of Black Metal. The Extreme and personal lyrics are surely a positive point that I will discuss with Noktu on the interview, because one of the astonishing element of this work is the perfect communication between the songs dark and gloomy feeling, like transcendental, the lyrics and the artwork, where the mysterious title is partly unveiled, distorting the limit between reality and darkest dreams. "Apparitia" is an album for those few individuals who aren’t only seeking for "Satan and Brutality" but differently for those who are digging deeper in the most horrible tunnels of our mind to acquire the disturbing and hypnotic magnetic force that surround mysteries and extra-material perceptions.
"Apparitia" is like closing eyes, turn everything off and left our darkest nightmares become art, leaving our mind without certain points. 

Ild Vote 5.5/6

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