renkls 28 minutes is a pretty short full-length release, but Verwustung insists that this album be considered as such. One-track albums have always fascinated me, and this one was certainly an interesting find. Free to download on their bandcamp, Verwustung melds ambience with shoegraze-like black metal. This album is mostly instrumental, aside from incomprehensible murmurs over the black metal parts as well as an opening dialogue between a mother and daughter taken from a film (not sure of which one).

The opening is very pink-floydian in its ambient build, and is really a highlight moment. Unfortunately the album despite its short length as a single track feels overlong. It doesn't always captivate the audience with the black metal in hypnotic loops of majestic beauty because it pushes the length a bit too far to be consistently engaging. An accoustic interlude is quite decent, but again, goes on for too long.

There's a lot of good in this track, aside from the slight excess it throws around. But hey, like most good music out there, it's free to download and listen to, so go right ahead and check it out, if you like the shoegrazy style in the metal genre, this may well be a great release for you.

http://vrwstng.bandcamp.com/album/beyond-the-watercolor-sunset-we-feel-new-life