Ieschure - Cold Stars of Eternity (2020)^{Release ID: 23373}

A two-track EP clocking in at a mere seven minutes, released after a three year wait following Ieschure's debut album The Shadow, is a brief affair, but is quality nonetheless. Opening track Cold Stars of Eternity is very much a black metal funeral dirge, with it's slow, ominous pacing, especially when Lilita shrieks (more than a little disturbingly) "Human bones and human flesh... Human heart was alive, Now is dead."

The EP's second track, In the Waves of Darkness, is even more unsettling with it's droning, noise-drenched background and double-tracked vocals that shriek desperately whilst simultaneously intoning the lyrics in an emotionless monotone. Feels like the kind of track that some noise / drone protagonists would drag out to twenty minutes or more, but is a very effective three minutes.