Entre les mains de la tristesse

Surprisingly, as a new band in the scene, with such efforts and potentials, this honestly is a absolutely successful step as a depressive/suicidal black metal band, I became incredibly aware of my stubborn mind as I pondered the projects in the depressive black metal scene and what a waste most of the them are, I admit that something have changed my views completely right after hearing this piece of (approximately) 22 minutes of oppression, sadness, depression and suicidal feeling.

This release is extremely repetitive. Perhaps that is actually one of the very few points that I heard people whining about. Personally I enjoyed listening to this EP, It makes the mind numb and the heart to crash with depression and suicidal feeling. If you're not into depressive black metal or if you're not a supporter to such type of themes, then Oppressive Light's not the right point for you. Overall the instruments here are reverbed and echoed, the drums are programmed, which it was the only thing which I didn't like about this EP, yet it is mixed and reverbed perfectly with the other instruments and vocals. The guitar is mostly post-rock influenced, pretty much a clean one with slight distortion and gain in few parts, the rhythm exists but in less than 40% of the work, the tremolo is well-played, and to be honest, the vocals was the only part that made me go numb, it improvises and gives you the eargasm.

The first track "Part I - Refuse" starts with a clean echoed/reverbed guitars then to be followed with repetitive drums and two guitars of rhythm and tremolo, while the vocals cries and screams from angst and hate to this existence, not to forget to quote the part from "01:55 - 2:30" when the song totally changes to a soundscape of clean guitars and shrieks by Litaliis to embrace the core of your soul. The second track is "Comme une fleur excisée" consist of two melancholic chords played continuously while the vocalist crawls and moans, tearing his throat apart by screams out of melancholy and oppression, yet it felt like it was missing something. Then comes the third part "Entre les mains de la tristesse" which it have the same feeling of the previous one but with more elements covering what was missing in "Comme une fleur excisée". Then with words of hopelessness and wasted life, starts the fourth track "Reve d'une pendaison", the theme of this track reminded me a lot of Apati's "Nykter Idag" but with guitars instead of keys. Finally "Part V - Le declin de la vie" comes to prepare an end to the misery and pain, the vocalist keeps torturing himself, the guitar drones in the mind and the drums blast in the ears.

"Ombre qui poursuit mes pensées
Mon âme resufe la sérénité."

Entre les Mains de la Tristesse or "In the Hands of Sadness" is a must-listen release with immense feelings and emotions, and as i claimed above this is what you must take with you to the six feet under after you depart, if you're an obsessive listener of depressive black metal, even if you'd think that it's lacking tons of elements, still... This is one of purest releases that would destroy your mind with depressive essence of solitude and sadness, if you're a fan of 'Apati, Lost Inside, When Mine Eyes Blacken or Through the Pain' then go for this depressive masterpiece and take it to your grave.