Über den Sternen

Seven years after their prior release, the pioneering German ensemble gloriously returns to the sweeping, heavily acoustic dark-folk sound that defined their 1990s peak. The deeply romantic, nature-worshipping album masterfully blends mournful cello and flute arrangements with thunderous, distorted doom metal crescendos and deeply melancholic clean vocals. It was celebrated as a remarkably triumphant, highly cinematic return to form for the influential gothic-folk project.