Renaissance in Extremis

by Akercocke

Renaissance in Extremis cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 25 August 2017
  • Label: Peaceville Records
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 54:21
  • Community rating: 3.43/5 from 2 ratings

Artists on this release: Fran莽oise Marotel, Claude Bardot, Jean Naty-Boyer, Isabelle Aulnoy

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Reuniting exactly ten years after their last studio release, the legendary British extreme metal pioneers deliver a triumphant comeback record. The tracking noticeably scales back their early satanic black-death hybrid in favor of sprawling, highly technical progressive metal marked by intricate acoustic interludes and prominent clean vocal passages. The album showcases a mature, philosophical evolution while retaining their signature complex ferocity.

Genres

Descriptors: atmospheric, progressive, uncommon-time-signatures, complex, technical

Tracklist

  1. Disappear (7:02)
  2. Unbound by Sin (4:25)
  3. Insentience (4:57)
  4. First to Leave the Funeral (6:24)
  5. Familiar Ghosts (7:17)
  6. A Final Glance Back Before Departing (6:23)
  7. One Chapter Ends for Another to Begin (4:10)
  8. Inner Sanctum (4:13)
  9. A Particularly Cold September (9:25)

Credits

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