However, it would not be far removed to imagine the opening could also be a recording of a Ukrainian walking through what was once their home, now reduced into the ash and debris of a city shelled and levelled by artillery fire.
The marked return to its old style is distinguishable from Drudkh’s previous outputs, particularly All Belong to the Night from late 2022, which came with a far more aggressive black metal sound that stemmed from the rage boiling over the Russian invasion of Ukraine that began earlier that year.
It is very much a product of its time, with Saenko, Thurios and their countrymen now three years deep into the invasion of their country. Tracks such as April, Fallen Blossom and The Eve capture the mixture of emotions that have beset the people of Ukraine in sweeping musical canvasses of dread, fury and hopelessness, layered over with vocals that howl and shriek anguished cries of desperation in the band’s native tongue.
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