“Ad Meilora” starts with chanting and church bells before moving into some lovely clean singing (although with electronic distortion applied) that immediately brought to mind the melodies of 90s alternative act Christie Front Drive. Songs with a more traditional black metal feel give way to extended acoustic guitar jams.
Mournful melodies are topped with paint-stripping vocals. The album as a whole is as wide ranging as that track. Then we’re back to a more traditional black metal sound with vicious vocal rasps that can serve as a power exfoliant. That stops abruptly and gives over to a lovely acoustic passage. After a brief intro, the music seems to seek to unsettle, with “Hexenwald II Wölfinninwald” opening with some seriously off-kilter and dissonant guitar shredding. The music on the album is as complicated as its title: Melancholic Waters Ablaze with the Fires of Loss. The short definition is “the realization that the plot of your life doesn’t make sense to you anymore.” Pretty appropriate for a DSBM album, although the album varies far and wide from the usual DSBM template. When I went to confirm the Bandcamp link for the debut album from Nodus Tollens, I came across the definition of the name itself at a link titled Thoroughlly Depressing Word of the Day.
The short definition is “the realization that the plot of your life doesn’t make sense to you anymore.”
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