The concept of Imber Luminis is simply a catharsis of feelings about life, death, sorrow, pain, suffering and true melancholy. The new release, “Life as Burden“, contains 4 long tracks, including a cover song of the too well known song “Sick of it all” by the band FINGER ELEVEN, completely done with IL’s touch. Sometimes the keys are just short passages of classical piano, a thing that turns it into a trace of melancholy. Explosive passages would not fit into an album that should be regarded as melancholic, contemplative and depressive.
The riffs, hard, repetitive and slow. The thing that gives this album its authenticity are the vocal parts that were introduced. A combination of clean vocals and screams, very specific to depressive black metal. It’s a thing that you don’t encounter nearly as often, depressive black metal vocals and funeral doom, mixed.
All in all “Life as Burden” is a combination of low tones, rough riffs, authentic parts of funeral doom and melancholic sequences, lashed into a gloomy ambiance. It’s an album that takes your blackest thoughts out, an album that gives you suffering, pain and desperation, so that they’d reach the most obscure cells of one’s brain, it’s actually everything that couldn’t be said through “Fletus” : the dark part of our own feelings.
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Dark, Darker, Nausea. You can cut the atmosphere in pieces. The vocals are totally hopeless and fit perfectly in the soundscape. Definitely a black highlight of the year and one of the best german releases in the last years. suhrim777
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I don't know about others, but I personally feel melancholic rather than depressed. The atmosphere is so thick that you can cut it with a knife, and after listening to this album (twice in a row), I can safely say that it will not end with two listens Kurt Von Jazzenhoff
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Déhà ne cherche pas à créer une cohésion entre les pistes rassemblées dans A Cold Distance, c'est plutôt un florilège qui permet d'aborder Imber Luminis sous trois facettes contrastées, faisant passer de douceur acoustique et contemplative à dépression funéraire extrême puis à post-metal atmosphérique. Évoluant chacune selon un seul prisme, elles ne sont pas ambivalentes sur le plan émotionnel comme d'autres pistes qu'il composera plus tard mais elles restent intenses. Une bonne compilation ! Jordan Vauvert
Crushing blackened doom from this German band that counterbalances blinding fury with moments of surprising, melancholy melody. Bandcamp New & Notable Jul 8, 2023
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Quand bien même Déhà est hyper productif, il reste le maître dans l'art de la nuance. Le patronyme même d'Imber Luminis joue sur le double sens : l'averse de lumière est aussi une averse de larmes. Et Fletus, toute première création de ce one-man band, joue sur la même logique : à la fois metal dépressif et lancinant, à la fois de la légèreté et du calme d'autant plus que cette démo est entièrement instrumentale. La déprime, c'est de l'eau : elle se boit ou se prend aussi en intraveineuse... Jordan Vauvert