ColdWorld – Melancholie² (2008)

October 16, 2020

ColdWorld is not a project I know much about. Intentionally or not, that fog of secrecy shrouding the project only helps heap on the atmosphere and drive home the miserable point, for ColdWorld not only plays black metal; ColdWorld is another one of those depressive one man black metal projects.

On the surface of it, the DSBM tag brings up all sorts of cringe, neckbeardy associations, but ColdWorld is guilty only of conjuring up genuinely heartwrenching compositions. This hollow, distortion-drenched record lives up entirely to its name, and consists of hypnotic, reverb-generating riffs and moody synthesizers, both of which render any drumming or vocal accompaniment almost unnecessary as they are consumed by, and fight feebly against, the eschewing musical fog.