Enigmatic Swedish Black Metal collective DET EVIGA LEENDET arrive on DMP in consummate style with turbulent and visceral third album, "Vehemence".
Emerging from Uppsala in 2015 and taking their name from Pär Lagerkvist's existentialist 1920 novel, DET EVIGA LEENDET have carved a unique and introvert path through contemporary Black Metal, where beauty and suffocation, vastness and claustrophobia exist side by side.
"Vehemence" pushes this melancholic tension further and into broader terrain. Recorded by Kristofer Jönson (BARRENS, JENIFEREVER) and reinforced by a powerful mix/master from Magnus Lindberg (CULT OF LUNA, ULCERATE), churning and urgent post-Metal guitars, radiant leads and mesmeric rhythms propel wounded, hyper-emotive songcraft sustained by the elemental roars of vocalist Jacob Buczarski (MARE COGNITUM, ACATHEXIS).
Lyrically, the record covers themes DET EVIGA LEENDET have explored since inception: collapse is the only constant, perception hardens into conviction, conviction into detachment, and what is witnessed is no longer filtered through empathy but via hopeless inevitability.
Recommended if you like: ULTHA, DER WEG EINER FREIHEIT, MARE COGNITUM