Black metal is a genre that has an awful lot of stigma attached to it. Murder, arson, cults, more murder – it’s a pretty dark and dingy corner of the music world that seems perpetually incapable of detaching itself from those traits. Well, until you discover Gaerea, that is. The Portuguese unit have been redefining what it means to be a black metal band in the modern scene, adding brighter colours to their sonic palette than their peers, and it’s drawn those in the know closer to them like a corpse-painted moth to a flame. Their new nine-track offering ‘Loss’ sees them add some fancy new tricks into their repertoire, producing their most ambitious record yet.
The band are, and have always been, anonymous. Now that Sleep Token have become a global phenomenon there will be many newcomers to the project that call copycat or claim the band are jumping on the mask-wearing bandwagon, but Gaerea’s anonymity represents something very different. They aren’t worshipping a deity, they aren’t...
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