KASM — Lux Obscurata Review
KASM is a Canadian Atmospheric/Cosmic Black Metal band. On August 25th, 2023, KASM independently released their debut EP album Lux Obscurata, released via MC, limited to 100 copies, on January 31st, 2024, by Northernshadow.
KASM, Lux Obscurata Review: This review will evaluate every aspect of the album, from its intricate musical composition to its production.
The First Three Sins, The Summary
The First Sin, The Strings/Keys: Guitar work incorporates dark and epic haunting melodies, and atmospheric synth-soundscapes. The Second Sin, The Vocals: Involves high-pitched black metal screams and deep growls, adding an intense, aggressive edge to the music. The Third Sin, The Percussions: Features different fills, beats, and strikes accompanied by blast beats.
The Fourth Sin, Overall Discussion
As soon as the listener presses the play button, the opening piece, Arcana Solaris, greets the listener’s ears with this captivating fruit of art journey that opens with atmospheric-space soundscape synths and follows suit with the four remaining pieces.
KASM is an alchemical blend of raw, aggressive, atmospheric, and depressive black metal. It’s a cosmic atmosphere and sonic landscape conjures a sense of nihilistic beauty, exploring themes of nothingness that stretch across the cosmos.
Lux Obscura is a fruit of art devilmanship that will take you on a haunting musical journey, with a composition that’s a fruit of the art of instrumental arrangements that effortlessly blend various tempos, moods, atmospheres, and heavy sections. The precision and skill of the musicians are palpable, delivering a soundscape that will penetrate your ears and soul with existential dread—a recording quality that’s raw and bleak as if captured in outer space and out-limits of time.
Lyrically, KASM takes you through an experience of cosmic despair and existentialism while exploring the vast unknown through both corporeal and incorporeal forms.
I highly recommend checking out KASM and their debut, Lux Obscura. A fruit of art, atmospheric and cosmic black metal band with a genuinely captivating sound that perfectly captures the genre’s essence. Whether you’re a die-hard Atmospheric Black Metal fan or simply someone who appreciates dark, eerie, and atmospheric music, KASM‘s atmospheric and cosmic musical spectrum is a must-listen.
The album comes to an end with the last song, Exordium Illumination. We want to give a shoutout to KASM for letting us review their Lux Obscura album.
The Fifth Sin, The Memorabilia
Is that for us, a unique ability to cultivate an air of intrigue and mystique around the band. With its five epic, long, dark, and eerie songs, sure to captivate and characterize their music, transport listens to an otherworldly listening experience.
The Sixth Sin, The Artwork
The album cover features a stunning artwork titled Celestial Being IV, created by the immensely talented Canadian artist Barthelemy Aupetit. The artwork perfectly captures the mood and essence of the music and is particularly well-suited to the album’s final track, Exordium Illumination.
The Seventh Sin, Disrelish
Nothing to disrelish within the musical spectrum of KASM and their album, Lux Obscurata.
The Hymns
01. Acrana Solaris
02. Black Light of the Leviathan
03. Terminus Post Quem Non Licet
04. Cosmic Enlightenment
05. Exordium Illumination
KASM
S.R. — Bass
J.T. — Guitars, Drums, Synths
K.B. – Vocals