Album Review: Shores of Null - Beyond the Shores (on Death and Dying) (2020)
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| Picture Credit: Shores of Null Artwork: Sabrina Carmanico |
Shores of Null - Beyond the Shores (on Death and Dying)
Release Date: November 27, 2020
Label: Spikerot Records
Format: Vinyl / CD / Digital
Length: 38:25
Genre: Doom Metal / Gothic Metal
Origin: Rome, Italy
For their third longplayer, Italian Gothic Doom band Shores of Null have decided to create an opus instead. Not only is it a concept album on the five stages of grief according to the works of psychiatrist Elisabeth Kübler-Ross (side note: remember, Australian Post Hardcore band Without Belief did that, too?)
Furthermore, Shores of Null were joined by eight special guests. Those are
Valentina Gabbianelli - violin,
Fabio Gabbianelli - double bass,
Paolo Campitelli - piano,
Marco Mastrobuono - bass,
Martina Lesley McLean - screams,
Elisabetta Marchetti - clean vocals,
Thomas A. G. Jensen - growls and spoken words, and
Mikko Kotamäki - growls, screams and clean vocals.
And thirdly, the album "Beyond the Shores (on Death and Dying)" consists of only one track. The five stages of grief are thus combined to one huge musical experience seemlessly merging into each other.
"Beyond the Shores (on Death and Dying)" is an astonishing oeuvre of dark, gloomy and soulful music. Shores of Null predominantly musick the stages of grief with elements from Doom and Gothic Metal. But the one-track album is as versatile as the feelings one goes through when experiencing grief. Brachial and raging parts slide into catatonic Ambient and rise up into ice cold Black Metal elements. Shores of Null graphically describe the rollercoaster of feelings.
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Wrapping up denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance into one big work is a brilliant idea by the band from Rome. Thus, the transitions between each of the five stages can be musicked in their realistic fluent way, instead of setting clear cuts between them. And after all, there is the central phrase of the whole work "Life is at War with us". I guess there are very few better ways to verbalize the interior monologue of those who experience grief.
Shores of Null have created an artistic masterpiece. "Beyond the Shores "on Death and Dying)" is a stunning journey through the human mind. Despite the dark topic, it is a very uplifting release.
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