TODESKULT — Apathy (review)

TODESKULT — Apathy album cover Album · 2009 · Depressive Black Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
2/5 ·
Vehemency
Apathy - a rather fitting name for Todeskult’s second full-length offering from last year. As I have stated a plethora of times before, there’s an overabundance of bands within the circles of depressive black metal and Apathy seems fairly unnoticable for various reasons, unfortunately.

For sure, this isn’t the cheapest drum machine bedroom project out there, no - there’s a five piece line-up behind this album and everything is executed rather well. But where Apathy fails is providing almost anything significantly personal - not that uniqueness is a requirement for me personally, but Apathy is really gray: partially due to the somewhat powerless production where really nothing stands out and the actual compositions that are mostly quite faceless. And when the album goes on for over an hour, I must say I’m a little bored.

A fitting comparison to Apathy would be a less interesting version of Nyktalgia: Neideck’s desperate screams are pretty much in the same vein and so is the overall spirit on the album. While the atmosphere here is enjoyable, I’d prefer putting on Peisithanatos, for example, for a greater listening experience where I’m not disturbed by musical stagnation.

Now that I look at this, I’ve been mostly bashing Apathy it seems, but I can say that the album most certainly has its fanbase somewhere. Like I implied, the band comprises people who know what they’re doing but this time they don’t really convince me - perhaps I’ve heard too many albums in this vein. If you don’t mind utter greyness in your depressive black metal, then do look into this.
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