Band info
Band: Black Spine
Album: ‘Reverdie’ [EP]
Released: April 13, 2026
Genre: Depressive black metal, blackgaze
Location: Sweden
Review
The annonymous innovative depressive ensemble from somewhere in Sweden, BLACK SPINE, are back with us for yet another feature!
Last time we visited which was their second full album throughout their discography, spanning from 3 years ago with ‘Through the Collapse of Industrial Society’, which we had the chance to feature as well only through the channel, and no matter the brief length of the work we have on the table at the moment, it is still a delight to have these folks as it was fantastic to witness their progress with this project.
‘Reverdie’ (possibly a wordplay for reverie adding die to it) is a 13 minutes long intense EP composed of two parts, I and II, and it might nod to a coming thing in the works as it encompasses not only some experimentation for the first part, stepping in blackgaze territory but keeping the atmospheric touch that was partly trademark before (and nodding to Le Secret as only description in the Bandcamp page for more emphasis in this side of the record). It’s a dreamy, soundscape-building song, where the elements of both shoegaze and atmospheric black metal have the lead in terms of structure, riffing and feeling over a silent shouted vocal work that seems to fade like a blurring tone in a fresh canvas. While we keep our mind in a natural landscape as painted for the cover and also in a typical fashion now for the band as echoing nature one way or another, the turn changes abruply for the second part and we find ourselves in an unbearable anguish and turmoil, returning to the rawer side of the sound more reminiscent of the Depressive Black metal frame; the dreamy iterations vanish and we are pushed with a drumming entrance to a suffocating melody, where the guitar technique still conserves coherence from the first part but builds tension according to how the context seems to change in a way where we can only feel moved by the very least.
We can safely say that, even though BLACK SPINE might still remind the listener to key acts in the scene such as ColdWorld, also highlighted previously, in ‘Reverdie’ there’s an opening door leading somewhere else and we are eager to see what’s behind for the future of this project, which we will be happy to have again with us.