Missa Tridentina

Of Darkness, the Spanish abysmal black funeral doom miserists, have finally released their iconic 2023 full-length album "Missa Tridentina" on vinyl format for the first time. Formed by members of Graveyard, Teitanblood, and Emanation, among others, this album is a colossal, subsonic deluge of magmatic, agonizing misery.

Hideously divergent and fearlessly experimental, Of Darkness brings their own idealization of crushing and impenetrable extreme doom suffocation to life. Elements of neoclassical composition, chamber music, dark ambient, and ritualistic experimental electronics adorn the music, condemning the listener to a horrific disembodiment of perpetual aeonian torment.

Few bands in recent times have been able to capture and conjure the same realms of disembodied, slow-moving terror as Of Darkness. Drawing inspiration from bands like Evoken, Nortt, and particularly Tyranny, Of Darkness most resemble the seething evil and spiteful dread that permeates their craft.

The Spanish abyss-shapers have taken this dismal, subterranean audial nightmare to an entire new plane of catastrophism. Experimental and improvisational ornaments assembled from unconventional approaches and instrumentations push the music into a blighted niche of extremity rarely witnessed at such a hideous and wretched state.