Ovfrost puts it himself: “It’s a 10 track record, mostly mid-tempo, that relies heavily on melodic rhythm-guitars, tremolo picking and atmospheric breakdowns, employing vocals that shift between standard black metal shrieks, quiet inhales, and sometimes low growls and cleans as well.” This album proves it just with its small and simple details, elegantly served, which need to be heard. “In the Catacombs of Time” is well dosed, so that some details need to be recognized over time. The secrets cannot be revealed all at once. This doesn’t make the album a one hit wonder or easily swallowed and then spat out. The tracks are going well with their melodic and memorable arrangements, despite being built on a similar structure in general. The production reminded me of the early Dimmu Borgir albums, mid Taake records, some At The Gates and actually a lot of Hoth’s 2018 effort. The music is cold, as the mentioned Karst realm, where in search of a purpose when walking the path of this meaningless existence, the lyrical hero should fight demons and tyranny, wandering towards the end of this path with the only hope being that the suffering will end. Since the very first tune, Ovfrost solidly hit a nerve with the conquering melodic and very atmospheric black metal and all melodic riffs he has performed.
New to the scene, MALIST’s mastermind Ovfrost decided to dig deep into the shadows of the past and present and open the door for all the ghosts living in these catacombs of time, and created this conceptual Karst realm album.
One-man band, the Russian MALIST brought us their debut album “In the Catacombs of Time” in the end of January.
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