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DEF/LIGHT - "Stygian Conclave": The Abyss Has a Reading List
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Ukraine’s DEF/LIGHT don’t just write riffs: they etch them into the walls of some cosmic oubliette. September 19th, their fifth full-length, "Stygian Conclave", drops like a slab of cursed scripture. Ten tracks, each a "Book" of heresy ("The Crown of Guilt", "The Hollow Architect"), structured less like songs and more like chapters in a grimoire penned by a scholar who’s way too into the dark arts.
Since their 2001 inception in Dnipro, DEF/LIGHT have shed members like a serpent sheds skin, now distilled to a two-piece studio cult. "Stygian Conclave" is the logical next step after May’s "Eternal Reign" EP: same obsidian production, same knack for making dissonance swagger. Imagine Behemoth’s grandeur filtered through Portal’s love of suffocating dread, but with a distinctly Slavic flavor: less fire-and-brimstone, more frostbitten nihilism. The title track’s riffs coil like smoke from a dying pyre; "Scorched Sky, Open Void" doesn’t just sound apocalyptic, it feels like the last transmission from a doomed expedition.
Here’s the thing: This isn’t music for casual spins. DEF/LIGHT craft albums as experiences, demanding you meet them halfway. No skimming, no distractions. Just you, the void, and the unsettling realization that the abyss? Yeah, it’s humming along.
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