Acrimonious - Sunyata
2012 / Black metal
Sunyata is actually a pretty decent album but it’s just rather
uninspiring. The sound on the album resembles that of Nightbringer quite a lot
and in fact two of the members used to be a part of the live lineup of NB so
it’s pretty clear that NB was the major inspiration for this album. Normally this
wouldn’t be such a bad thing if there was also something new to be found, but in
this case there was basically nothing that would differentiate this album from
an average album of NB.
I do believe that adopting some elements from NB and giving
it a twist could result in something great, but unfortunately that is not what
Sunyata was really aiming to do. I do like the general style of NB so I simply can’t
say that I dislike Sunyata, but I was still mildly disappointed with the lack
of originality. I’ll definitely listen to it again at some point and see if
I could get more out of it, but now it just felt like a simplified version of NB.
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