Progressive Rock

Fuzz Club · 2 October 2026

“Burial” (4:41) opens the record with no preamble and at full speed: drums, guitars and synths stacked up and never easing off across its near-five minutes, with Gonçalo Ferreira’s shredded voice over the top. The seven tracks add up to thirty-nine minutes.

Jaime Gomez Arellano, who has worked with Ghost, Ulver and Behemoth, produced, mixed and mastered the album at ARDA Recorders in Porto in early 2026, and that’s the most audible difference from “Astromorph God” (2023). Halfway through “Sleeper” (6:44) the band lets all the noise fall away and sits in a passage of synths; when the layers come back in, each one lands where it should.

The band say they booked the studio with nothing composed and that the whole record came out of a little over a month of intense rehearsal: “the pressure of wanting to take a step forward with the next album started to creep in and caused some internal friction”. The title comes from T. S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land”, and the sleeve is a bare, frosted tree against a burning orange field.

The gesture repeats too often. “Burial”, “Decipher” (5:02) and the title track (5:19) all get going the same way, and “Silenced Soul” (2:30) is the only moment where the record drops its head. On “Way Down” (6:48) the band reaches for a hook of the sticky kind, with a clean vocal closer to nineties grunge, and the song ends up sounding like it wandered in from another album. “Rapture” (7:57) closes by climbing again from the top.

Rating: 7.6/10

Text by Guillem Cardós