Reviews list for Ataraxie - Résignés (2019)

This is classic funeral / death doom material with the album's four tracks clocking in at a mammoth 83 minutes. Thematically, the album deals with the human race's apparently suicidal need to be the instrument of it's own destruction through unmitigated consumption of the planet's resources and pathological voyeurism. These themes are very much suited to the morbid and sorrowful atmosphere created by these french alchemists, the towering walls of sound washing everything away to leave the listener overwhelmed, exhausted and resigned to their fate, like the people of the album's cover queueing passively for their own execution. Absolutely recommended for fans of Esoteric, Evoken, Bell Witch et al.