Review: Offret's upcoming album "Затмение" (The Eclipse)

Offret are a Black Metal band from Russia. Quite a different Black Metal music, I must say. There is a bit of an experimental branch there.

They have been around for nearly 10 years, and they have quite an interesting discography. Затмение is their second full length, and is coming out on the 21st of February, via War Productions / Void Wanderer Productions /

Dead Red queen Records / Onism Productions.

I have to say that Затмение is different from anything I've heard in the last times. Every track is a surprise. When you think the song is going to be a certain way, it changes drastically, and those twists are really really interesting.

It is utterly atmospheric, dark, deep, introspective and furious as well. I like it.

Затмение has 5 tracks. All of them with ambience elements, which take you to a complete different dimension. Very mystical, very musical, very meditative, sometimes tribal, even hypnotic. The thing is, when you think "oh wow, this is different, i can go along with it", comes a twist that makes your jaw drop. So fast and full of fury and anger, so bloody unexpected. It's marvelous. 

It all is really powerful, very very out of the ordinary, and yet so pleasant and goosebumpsy. The whirlpool of emotions is something else.

I was completely taken by surprise by the intensity and immensity of this album. And, this kind of experimental thing and mix and blend isn't even my cup of tea. Imagine if it was. 

So if you enjoy some more environmental music, you get it. But, if you're a fan of really heavy, enraged, heated, fast Black Metal music, you get it too! It is all perfectly matched together. I can't even chose a favourite track. They are all enormous. Затмение is a fantastic album, indeed.