There’s a suffocating, nightmarish darkness embedded in Creon, the latest offering from NŪR, and it radiates outward from the first second. Even the new album's cover art mirrors this descent, a visual extension of the sludge-soaked post black metal extremity that defines the band's new material.
Immaculately produced yet ruthlessly concise, Creon compresses its vision into a two-minute burst of blackness and ferocity. Death and black metal cavernousness collide under relentless tension, creating a claustrophobic intensity that borders on coming across as cinematic. Every element sharpens the blade.
A sharp commentary on greed and vanity can be found beneath the violence. Creon challenges the misleading strength of unrelenting defiance, showing how alienation frequently follows, not as a form of discontent, but rather as an aftermath.
Creon appears on NŪR’s new album Shock Mentality, out via Sludgelord Records. Brief and devastating, the track offers no respite, forcing immersion from start to finish.
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