Alkymist - Wreckage of the Raging World (2019)^{Release ID: 15187}

The three tracks on this, Alkymist's second EP, deal with the post-apocalyptic vision of nuclear war, culminating in There'll Be No Resting which, a little like Ebeneezer Scrooge in Dickens' A Christmas Carol, reveals that all has not yet come to pass and an angelic/demonic vision warns what may happen if the human race doesn't change it's ways. Heavy stuff, even if taken as an allegory for the impending environmental apocalypse rather than all-out war, but the music succesfully reflects the weight of the subject, a black/doom parable for the modern age. This, along with 2018's Spellcraft Ceremony are, for me, fast establishing Alkymist as one of the great underrated outfits in both black and doom metal.