We’re proud to feature the long-awaited second album from Kvadrat, the one-man death/black metal band from Greece which took everyone by surprise with their debut EP release in 2021. Showcasing already a mastery in the combination of death metal and dissonant black metal alongside bathed in the waters of an oppressing, dark atmosphere, the question of where Kvadrat would go from there left many of us with bated breath. Coming from the bowels of the local diy grind scene and featuring prominently an anti-nazi message on their Bandcamp page, Kvadrat finally released their first full-length The Horrible Dissonance of Oblivion at the beginning of April.

The first thing you’ll notice is that the production has stepped two levels up from the already very good level of the ep. You’re greeted by a massive granite of brutal death metal riffing, hyperspeed drumming and cavernous vocals that still leave some space open for some dark black metal-style melodicism. There is a cold, industrial, maybe even brutalist feeling which permeates the album (Kvadrat means “square” in Russian), like journeying in a massive, bleak metropolis where tormented souls live their empty lives in silent suffering and oblivion, an aspect which is communicated by the visual side of the album as well, also handled by the creator of the project in an impressive series of drawings, video clips, and even a visual art book which will be released.

Unrelenting, the album pummels the listener into a catatonic state which perfectly encapsulates the feeling of modern alienation until the final epic track of the album comes (translated as “total disintegration”, furthering the ep’s “psychic disintegration”). What’s more to say that along with Convulsing‘s new album, Kvadrat offers the death metal album of the year so far. Don’t miss it!

⚔️ KVADRAT ⚔️

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