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From the Swamps to Victory…
I admit that I tend to be skeptical when one-man bands start additional projects with similar genre tags within just a few years of existence. Some drop their inferior work under a different name, to ensure it doesn’t tarnish their original project’s reputation (why release it at all?) and others do very little to stray from their former style choice (so why start with another name in the first place?)…
Either way, this skepticism is wholly unjustified when it comes to Sagenwelten. Emerging from the dire swamps of Vienna’s urban hinterland, Burkhard Lettner’s Fallaness does indeed originate from the same black metal genre pool that spat forth his earlier Winter’s Breath incarnation, but if you’re willing to take a closer look at Sagenwelten, there is no doubt that a different approach was taken towards its ultimate outcome.
The production is lush and expansive, drawing you far away from its real-world urban spawning grounds. Both Norwegian black metal spirits and crawling doom metal stakes merge into a hazardous creature of various origins, making it hard to put a finger directly onto any band influence, but let me try: if you think that Samael‘s early work having a date with both Katatonia‘s Dance of December Souls and anything happening in Norrköping before Panzer Division Marduk arrived sounds like a good idea, you’ve surely come to the right place. Expect a lot of burned-down candles, suicide notes, and bloody razor blades on that dinner table though, because this restaurant’s ambiance is more reminiscent of Xasthur atmospherically than of any previously mentioned participants.
The lyrics – while ominous and dreadful in their own right – do not have much in common with the introspective and suicidal stories woven by said dressmaker, as Sagenwelten prefers to tell classic tales of mysterious local legends, wicked apparitions and other hostile entities emerging from the boggy grounds. BL, though a suitably harsh narrator, is only using his abrasive voice when necessary as he seems to be aware of the fact that the greatest strengths of this album lie in his ability to summon a convincing scenery of mysterious lore and rather dreadful conditions with just his instrumentals and compelling songwriting, all dressed up in a great production package.
With barely a moment of slack, a competent use of dramatic breaks, illustrious tremolo-picking among heavy, crawling doom riffs and perfectly placed haunting synths to boot, Fallaness‘ debut is simply not just the extension of an existing project, it’s a fresh and more cohesive beast than previous works by Burkhard, hence fully deserving of this new moniker and being an entity of its own. There will be more, I suppose?
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