🔥The Ruins Of Beverast Exuvia Review🔥

🔥The Ruins Of Beverast Exuvia Review🔥

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Welcome to album review Tuesdays here on the channel once again, I hope you have been enjoying this series as well as everything else you’ve seen so far! So tonight I am doing another subscriber request and this one comes courtesy of the user “Tom Foley and he has asked if I would review “The Ruins Of Beverast-Exuvia” (Released in 2017 on Van Records)

So here we are. Now The Ruins Of Beverast are an atmospheric black/doom metal project from Germany and formed back in 2003 and has released 6 full lengths and a number of splits and demos. At one time the band did have a full lineup back in 2013 but has since then become a one man project.

The project named the Ruins of Beverast is in fact an alias for German vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Alexander von Meilenwald, known in underground circles for his previous and parallel work with Graupel, Heemat, Nagelfar, Abusus, and Kermania. Founded in 2003 with the release of a demo entitled The Furious Waves of Damnation, and soon followed a year later by a full-length, Unlock the Shrine, the Ruins of Beverast produce an unusual style of "lurking" progressive black metal, adventurous in terms of arrangements yet intentionally rudimentary when it comes to recording standards.
Alright so lets get into the review now shall we?

Opening this monolith of 75 minutes of music is the title track “Exuvia” which opens up with some native chanting and some somber clean guitar notes while the double bass and distortion fade in slowly giving it an instantly unsettling atmosphere, then theres some incredible female chanting that comes in overtop of it all, now the production is a bit too clean for my liking as this is black/funeral doom metal and I expected it to be a bit more raw than this.

However its not clean to the point where it loses any of its intended atmosphere or overall impact of the emotional context and surrealistic soundscapes and dissonant hypnotic guitar riffs, the drumming kind of just serves to keep the pace of the music and emotional peaks and valleys that this album conjures up upon listening.

There is obviously some deep ancient nostalgic longing happening on this track as well as deep psychosis and esoteric structuring and composition and it certainly sets itself apart from so many bands out there today. This is truly something unique and it sets itself into your psyche immediately from the first opening note. I instantly knew that I was going to be a huge fan of this because of how it struck me inside instantly. The shedding feeling and powerful growth that this gives is remarkable.

The track pulls you into its black desolate atmosphere of despair and tragedy but its also serene and spiritual at the same time and this juxtaposition makes it a truly unique listening experience and I love that this composition is 16 minutes long as it keeps you absolutely entranced the entire duration of the track and it has so many nuances and the way it slows itself to an ambient dark experience mid way through adds to its effectiveness of its memorable and compelling musical journey. This is a shamanic experience and one that you have to fucking hear. Amazing stuff