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            Artist......: Wode
            Album.......: Uncrossing the Keys
            Year........: 2025
            Genre.......: Black Metal

            Type........: Album
            Label.......: 20 Buck Spin
            Language....: English

            Source......: FLAC/WEB (24bit)
            Encoder.....: libFLAC
            Quality.....: 3046kbps avg. / 96.0kHz / 2 channels

            Tracks......: 9
            Playtime....: 00:42:54
            Size........: 985.09MB

            R.Date......: 2025-10-03
            S.Date......: 2025-10-03
            Url.........: https://open.qobuz.com/album/lk5wxlpaaejja


            01. Two Crossed Keys                                4:16
            02. Under Lanternlight                              4:55
            03. Saturn Shadow                                   5:27
            04. Transmutation                                   4:43
            05. Prisoner of the Moon                            4:32
            06. Fiery End                                       4:36
            07. Lash of the Tyrant                              6:09
            08. Phantom                                         2:20
            09. Dashed on the Rocks                             5:56


            Manchester's savage sons Wode return with their fourth
            album, 'Uncrossing The Keys', marking a confident
            expansion of their already formidable sound built upon
            a shadowy foundation of feral black metal and ironclad
            heavy metal heft. Having evolved from the more
            straightforward methodology of the debut album, Wode
            has continuously added elements from various dark
            corners of the underground across its discography,
            with songwriting that has grown leaner yet more
            intricate, focused and melodic than ever.

            'Uncrossing The Keys' hasn't softened Wode's music,
            the sound remains steeped in flame and fury, but
            they've embraced a wider spectrum of moods, painting
            with blacker, richer hues than ever before. Jagged
            post-punk / goth leanings bleakly shine on new tracks
            like 'Saturn Shadow' and the dreamy trance of
            atmospheric instrumental 'Phantom'. The doomier pace
            and majestically pensive mood of single
            'Transmutation' recalls both Paradise Lost and
            Amorphis with its somber undercurrent, while the
            morosely anthemic 'Under Lanternlight' is suffused
            with dynamic melodies in its Sentenced-like
            composition style. Guitars carry a mournful shimmer at
            times, their hooks laced with both melancholy and
            menace, drifting above the carnage with moments of
            elegiac beauty and dark lamentation. The hellish rasp
            of the vocals rise like ritual chants from another
            age.

            Conjuring visions of a world perpetually on the edge
            of twilight Wode casts a long, cold silhouette over
            the course of 'Uncrossing The Keys' nine tracks.
            There's a sense of both grandeur and decay, as though
            the band opened a gateway to a realm where cursed
            cities smolder under blood-red skies, their walls
            echoing forsaken hymns eternally. The result of a
            constant evolutionary process Wode has crafted a truly
            haunted and commanding blackened heavy metal that
            raises a dark banner high over a vast and desolate
            kingdom.