Review Summary: Simply terrifying.
I don't know about you people, but when I listen to metal, I love to feel the emotion. Anyone can play instruments proficiently, but if there's nothing behind it then what's the point? Swedish dark metal bastards Terra Tenebrosa make you feel things while listening to their music. They make you feel unnerved, jumpy and even straight up scared at times.
The Reverses is their third full-length album and it is a culmination of everything they've done up until this point. Their previous albums were great, but this is another beast entirely. From the very first second, you're going to feel unsettled. You get a sound rooted in black metal but the heaviest presence here is the frigid industrial sound that makes you feel as if you're stuck in a shipping container hauled off in the middle of the Atlantic ocean in December. This *** is eerie and gives you the sense of someone creeping up behind you from a distance. You don't quite know what it is, but you know something is wrong. The riffs here are plentiful, but are more of a background component as opposed to a main attraction. The vocals are distorted, tortured, frightening and utterly breathtaking.
Being uncomfortable is a part of life. Hell, some people thrive and become most successful from being put in uncomfortable situation. If you decide to listen to
The Reverses, you are knowingly putting yourself in a claustrophobic situation with Pinhead waiting for you on the other side of it. Expect atmosphere, expect darkness and expect pain.
