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Upcoming Release: Wazzara
The Root Remembers What the Crown Forgot
Listen to water long enough and it starts whispering things you didn't want to hear. That's what Wazzara does. They take the sound of something ancient, old Swiss folk songs, tarot symbolism, the weight of centuries pressing down on creative women, and wrap it in black metal that refuses to stay angry. Instead it aches. It transforms. It descends into shadow work like Dante wandering through circles, except the guide is a woman's voice floating somewhere between ethereal and haunted.
Their new album "Arbor" dropped February 13th, and it's the kind of record that makes you understand why Switzerland's been quietly producing some of the most unsettling, beautiful metal on the continent. Ten years in, Barbara Brawand (vocals, guitar), Mäsi Stettler (guitar), George Necola (bass), and the rotating percussion have refined something rare : atmospheric blackgaze that doesn't feel like a gimmick. The heaviness breathes. The beauty cuts. Nothing's extraneous, nothing's there to impress anyone.
"Arbor" is built around an image : we are not separate from the tree of wisdom, we're its roots, its trunk, its crown. That duality runs through everything: darkness and ethereal beauty, introspection and ancient power, the Hermit's solitary journey mixed with voices resounding from centuries past. Songs whisper of untamed fruit, of wisdom never truly broken, just buried and waiting. The concept's rooted in real things. "9 Confines" digs into the Hermit tarot, the hermeneutic circle, transformation through confrontation with what hurts. "What Lies Beneath" is memento mori, full stop ; constant change, death, the motivating terror of knowing you're mortal. "Visiûne" (Old German for "vision") tells of spirits constrained by tradition, creative thriving suffocated, resilience against conformity. And then they take "Guggisberglied," a Swiss folk song from 1741 about lost love, and remake it into something that hits different when you understand the weight it carries.
The production, handled by Jan Sung-Kuy Kroeni and Katharina S. Kadler, refuses to smooth anything. It just makes sure you hear it. Doom riffs that feel like they're pulling you down. Ambient textures that drift like smoke. Vocals that float somewhere between dream and nightmare. No flash. Just presence. This isn't black metal that wants to destroy. It's black metal that wants to transform. That's rarer than you'd think, and infinitely more dangerous. Sapere aude. Dare to know.
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRalXjFOGwI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRalXjFOGwI
Bandcamp (Album Arbor): https://wazzara.bandcamp.com/album/arbor
https://wazzara.bandcamp.com/album/arbor
Spotify (Arbor): https://open.spotify.com/album/4qApdsK4xoqWOsuLfGtQfX
https://open.spotify.com/album/4qApdsK4xoqWOsuLfGtQfX
YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXd20NBbrdO5c4Ii8ZzKqzg
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXd20NBbrdO5c4Ii8ZzKqzg
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