Celestia ‎"Archaenae Perfectii - L'arche Arcane Des Parfaits" Cassette

Also released on tape by Bubonic Productions, limited to 300 handnumbered copies.
Graf von Feigur recorded drum tracks for the album, but Noktu did not use the recordings because he was not satisfied with them.

Beautiful, this is simply beautiful. This magnificent album is courtesy of the black metal band Celestia. Well, together with the Greeks, the French are also getting good at creating metal opuses especially black metal ones. Let’s talk about this great black metal release named “Archanae Perfectii”.
First, let’s talk about the riffs. Although the riffs have nothing much new in them, they were performed damn right, since numerous melodies here sound outright minimalist, and, of course, melancholic (though not necessarily depressive). Meanwhile, you won’t hear much blast beats in this album, but fast drum work is more or less a staple here. Another thing here is the vocal work, which is another thing that fits to the melancholic music that surrounds this album. Lastly, we have here the production, while most black metal bands nowadays focus on making the drums loud on every song to add power, Celestia doesn’t. What the band does is making the beats and the riffs blend each other without dominating one another (though the bass isn’t that audible). Besides, we don’t have here a “bedroom-made” type of production.
Though the album has loads of melancholic moments like “Dogmatii Duality” & “Perfectio Ketter Katharos”, this album also has some raging black metal moments like those that of “Demhiurgic Deity (Devilution)”, some calm moments like “Grandiohsia Obverturae”, and the instrumental “ArcheArcanae Des Parfaits”. If the album would have a problem, it would be the length and only the length. The album is too short for its own good (with “Grandiohsia Obverturae” as the longest song, which spans for over 6 minutes. Besides that, the album totally will blow your mind off. Though DSBM fans will really like the mood that this album sets (from my own perspective), black metal fans in general will enjoy this magnificent art. Therefore, if you want to spend your money wisely, you better snag this record and listen to this!

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