WAXGOAT282 Vespéral (Quebec) - La Mort de l'Ame - Picture Disc/LP

Second full-length by this Québécois, a brilliant follow-up to 2023's highly celebrated debut, "Nuits Blanches", this release sees the band maintaining the ethos and atmosphere behind their sound yet chaning things up a bit. Still focused around bucolic themes from the darkened corners of the spirit, Vespéral weaves melodies of invernal melancholy and decaying despondency. Swallowed in the shadows of the mind and physical realms alike, Vespéral's striking guitarwork and pounding drums carry a fading torch from withing the most visceral human nature where no gleam of light barely shines. A sound that is now deprived from the most Punk-ish and Oi!-ish elements of the previous albums, with the exception of the last two tracks, and a follows a more gallopant, intricate, ancient way of portentuous riffing, not unlike Departure Chandelier, Osculum Infame, Blessed in Sin, etc, laced in mystical, atmospheric keyboard work.

Available on Japanese style tip-on jacket with OBI, Picture LP and Pink LP. The first slide with PINK OBI is the special design for Picture Disc edition.