Grim Chronicles

Nowy Artykuł! Release year 2025 After a five-year wait, Martwa Aura released their third full-length album, Lament, this year. Compared to other releases under this banner, the change is immediately apparent from the cover alone. Over the years, Martwa Aura has accustomed us to almost every album featuring black and white colors shrouded in gray. In the case of Lament, the situation is somewhat different. Neither the band nor the album name appear on the cover, but the colors of the photo remain, which, at first glance, without any familiarity with the band, aren't even associated with black metal. In this photograph, we can see a very emaciated human body topped by a subtle flower and its petals. The album runs just under forty minutes, consisting of seven songs, each titled "Lament Pierwszy," "Lament Drugi," and so on, reaching track six, as the final track has a completely different title, "Morbus Animus II," which I'll discuss later in this review. From the very first seconds of "Lament," hatred for the human race and this valley of tears pours out of the speakers. The greatest contribution to this is made by Greg's lyrics and vocals, which, without losing the black metal roots of the grime in the vocals, st...