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|                     |   Yhdarl-A_Prelude_To_The_Great_Loss-CDEP-FLAC-2016-CATA

\     |   _   |    __|    |    |     STORE: 00-00-2016 RELEASE: 00-00-2020
\    |   /   |   __/|    |    |     GENRE: Black Metal
\___|__/|   |   |  |    |    |   BiTRATE: 950 kbps Avg 44.1kHz 2 channels
| ----|___|___|--|_________|-  ENCODER: FLAC v1.3.1
|                                LABEL: Self Released
|                             LANGUAGE: English
|                                 SiZE: 216.5MB
|                                FiLES: 2  Files
|                                  URL: http://tinyurl.com/sut67ll

|      |  [01]...[.Unblessed Hands                                 [..11:57..]|
|      |  [02]...[.Primal Disgrace                                 [..18:14..]|

|      |                                                           [30:11 min]|

| Déhà is a very busy man. One look at his Metal Archives page will
| show you that he has his hands in a lot of different projects
| across a rather large scope of music. Delving into the list, a few
| of his projects stand out. The Belgian man has almost annually
| released music under the Black Metal moniker of Merda Mundi (Latin
| for "shit of the world"), for regular readers or fans of Funeral
| Doom, Déhà is also the man behind the instrumental/atmospheric
| Funeral Doom band, Slow. Today's focus, however, is on his
| Blackened Drone/Doom project, Yhdarl. Déhà, along with fellow
| musician, Larvalis, digitally released a new, two-song entitled A
| Prelude to the Great Loss.

| The name of the EP is exactly what it might imply. A Prelude to the
| Great Loss will ultimately build to an album entitled Loss. It
| features the songs, "Unblessed Hands" and "Primal Disgrace", which
| were originally recorded in 2014 and feature a slew of guest
| appearances like Ascaris of Ævangelist and Old from Drohtnung.
| "Unblessed Hands" resonates more as a (relatively) prototypical
| Funeral Doom song. Throughout its roughly 12-minute runtime, the
| track has an undertow of somber guitar strings from which harsh
| shrieks and bellows occasionally break through. It is in the EP's
| latter track, "Primal Disgrace", where tides turn and tempos spike
| into blackened territories. Yhdarl's music becomes an exercise in
| crippling torment as the track progresses. The tempestuous Black
| Metal breaks momentarily to alone occasional doom or droning
| interludes before returning to a pummeling pace.

| The two tracks dichotomize Yhdarl's music in a way that showcases
| Déhà's range (as if his plethora of projects did not prove that
| anyway). A Prelude to the Great Loss is a healthy dose of
| Extreme/Funeral Doom Metal that leaves you wanting more. One can
| only hope that Loss is delivered in the relative near future. For
| the time being, may I suggest diving headfirst into Déhà's daunting
| discography as well as purchasing today's feature from Yhdarl's
| Bandcamp page? A bit of an undertaking, but I promise it is worth
| the reward.

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