From Blurr Thrower, whose last chapter ended with Les Voutes in 2021, Limbes (atmospheric black metal) was born the same year. The project is both a logical and coherent continuation of Guillaume Galaup's life and a break with it. A break in perception, creation and opaqueness. After a darkly successful collaboration with Mütterlein and a debut album, Ecluse, released at the start of last year, Liernes, due out on 5 July 2024, is a follow-up to the previous album.
Liernes is a compendium of gentle melancholy, less complex and cryptic in its composition than its predecessors, but nonetheless very rich and therefore more accessible and touching. From the very first track, you're lost on the Way of the Cross, in a vaporous trance, all shades of grey tending towards lightening. The notes, like the spectre of a certain despair dancing in our consciousness, resonate within us with a certain beauty that strives to free us from our inner demons while at the same time bringing them to life. The sooty vocals that accompany them are so visceral that they seem unreal, lending a heart-rending depth that is so personal to the whole.
Like the regeneration of flesh from a painful wound, Liernes, in a perpetual cathartic movement between gentleness and violence, attempts a rebirth from the ashes strewn with despair, aided by Kariti who adds her voice to Buffet Froid with great accuracy, tinting the whole with a touch of mysticism perfectly suited to the atmosphere of this work, with lyrics as beautiful as ever.
