Verberis are a band from new Zealand that has had music reviewed before in this zine and on this recording plays an aggressive mixture of black and death metal and this is a review of their 2024 album "The Apophatic Wilderness" which will be released on march 29th by NoEvDiva.
Dark sounding synths start off the album along with some clean playing a few seconds later before going into a heavier direction. All of the tracks are also very long and epic in length while all of the musical instruments on the recording also have a very powerful sound to them and the vocals are mostly grim sounding black metal screams.
Dissonant style melodies can also be heard in some of the guitar riffing while the slower sections of the songs also show an influence of doom metal. When the music speeds up a great amount of blast beats can also be heard along with some death metal growls also being utilized at times.
Throughout the recording you can also hear a good mixture of slow, mid paced and fast parts along with some tracks also adding in a small amount of clean playing, spoken word parts can also be heard in certain sections of the album, when tremolo picking is added into the faster riffing they also give the music more of a raw feeling as well as some guitar solos and leads also being added towards the end. The production sounds very professional while the lyrics cover occultism, hubris, submission, worship and ruin.
In my opinion this is another great sounding recording from Verberis and if you are a f an of modern black and death metal, you should check out this album. RECOMMENDED TRACKS INCLUDE "The Emptying Of God" and "Arteries Unto Ruin II". 8 out of 10.
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