Lautreamont from Russia are in no way strangers to the pages of this zine. I already listened and wrote a review for the band´s debut album back in 2018.

Now, this Russian duo consisting of Wrath and Dread deliver their second full length album. This new record could be called a concept, but it is also not a concept record. This one is inspired by Thomas Ligotti´s work Conspiracy against human race, also poetry of Edgar Allan Poe and Isidore Ducasse. This 7 song album has a dark, almost touchable atmosphere of thick black/death metal, apocalyptic in its tale of human puppet existence and nothingness.

From the sheer ferociousness of blast beats and destruction of Broken Claws to more melodic and almost cold and space like dissonances of Thanatophobia, one of my highlights on this record, Lautreamont deliver their story with conviction, coldness and relentless march. I am amazed how clean vocals in some song parts can also sound cold and atmospheric and delive coup de grace to the listener as in amazing Brotherhood Of Suffering. Unpersons is a lesson in brutality and quality blackened death metal with blasting brutality and darkness just oozing from your speakers. One more song that I must mention is the title song, being epic soundtrack to your demise, with changing tempo, sharp and brutal riffs, but also total lack of humanity being cold and void.

This second effort is a step further from the debut. Great record.