Album Review: Winds Of Tragedy – Hating Life (Meuse Music Records/Tragedy Productions)

On February 17th, 2023, the second album from the depressive black metal storm that is Winds Of Tragedy will be unleashed. Building on the raw intensity of debut album As Life Drifts Away, Sergio González Catalán, the man behind the Winds Of Tragedy name, has taken his dark art to another level with the follow-up, Hating Life.

Wallow in the misery that Winds of Tragedy pour upon the world with Hating Life. Give yourself completely to the melancholic beauty and threatening gloom that wraps around the mind, body, and soul upon experiencing this album. It’s an experience of desolation and despondency, distorted by the terror and horror of black metal.

How could that not want you to press play on Hating Life?

Especially as it’s the work of one individual, mostly, as drums are performed by Emidio Alexandre. Sergio González Catalán’s wretched roars, frenzied guitar playing, and heart-wrenching keyboard melodies are startlingly strong. The seven tracks of this deep, bleak, and brash album leave an extreme mark on the psyche.

Unlike a lot of other music that falls within the ‘depressive’ black metal category, Winds of Tragedy break the mould by not overdoing it when it comes to length, and makes the focus of the music; blistering speed, and brutal sounding heaviness. The emotive melody it does feature is carefully layered in and around the unabashed ferocity. Serving to enhance the mind-melting and soul-crushing savagery.

It might be a familiar combination, but Winds of Tragedy’s version is more thrilling than most.

Winds of Tragedy – Hating Life Track Listing:

1. Living A Lie
2. Choose to Die
3. Hating Life
4. No Reason to Go On
5. Wake Me Up from This Act
6. Death Love
7. Remember We Died

Links

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