Reviews list for Imber Luminis - Same Old Silences (2019)

Déhà is an artist I have a huge amount of time and respect for in his numerous guises, particularly as his funeral doom alter-ego Slow and under his own Déhà banner. To this I can now confidently add his material released as Imber Luminis, a kind of hybrid of the aforementioned couple of projects, combining atmospheric / depressive black metal with funereal doom, particularly on Same Old Sufferings where the doom comes to the fore, albeit in a blackened state. Silence III takes atmospheric bm and puts a real anguished spin on it, in the manner of the better DSBM acts. Both tracks have an epic feel, albeit not in an overblown way and not merely due to the song lengths, but in the way it feels as though it is speaking to a fundamental and ancient yearning in the human soul that reaches back through the ages.