{"product_id":"no-remains-no-remains-tape","title":"NO REMAINS \"NOTHING LAST\" TAPE","description":"\u003cp\u003eLimited to 50 copies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eQuote from OOE Records:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDebut demo of this side project by DPR of the renowned Osculum Infame. No Remains' first \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eoffering is an unflinchingly bleak and deeply nihilistic work of depressive black metal that calls to \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003emind Filosofem and the specter of the 90’s underground. In an era when DSBM has increasingly \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ebecome a beacon for genre tourists attracted to the vanity of self-indulgent sorrow, No Remains \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003erejects the romantic melancholy of its popular contemporaries and reclaims the darker tradition \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eof this style on Nothing Last.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr class=\"html-br\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNothing Last’s 27 minute runtime is framed between intro and outro samples hinting at a\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr class=\"html-br\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003econtinuity throughout the demo’s 6 tracks. These production touches are tastefully used here \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eand elsewhere on the release to give the entire work a narrative quality; it is not a stretch to \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eimagine the demo as the despaired tale of one whose damnation was cosmically ordained, a \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003efact of birth that was never within their control. Sonically, Nothing Last is comprised of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003etrance-inducing slow- to mid-tempo black metal that reserves higher tempos and intensities to \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ehighlight climactic moments in the compositions. The vocals, delivered in an anguished, raving \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ewail, have a touch of Urfaustian madness to them, and one can faintly detect other similarities to \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ethe Dutch duo in No Remains’ skilled use of melody and atmosphere. All these elements are \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ebrought to bear to create the dreamlike malaise that casts its pall over Nothing Last. Yet it would \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ebe a mistake to characterize the demo as purely wallowing in misery: there is a latent \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eviciousness underneath Nothing Last’s gloomy disposition, and it rears its head most formidably \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eon the stand-out closing track. While the predominant overtone of the release is an \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003einwards-directed hatred that manifests itself as self-destructive impulses, The Angels are Falling \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eturns this hatred outwards, snarling with unexpected ferocity like the violent paroxysm of one \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eawakening from rumination to lash out at the world one final time. Whether the audio vignette \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ethat concludes both this track and the demo itself is intended as a conclusion or doomed \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003econtinuation of the despair described herein is left as an exercise to the listener.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Obscurity Of Error Records","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":59615052595525,"sku":null,"price":10.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0524\/1441\/5042\/files\/NoRemainsTape.png?v=1791381364","url":"https:\/\/www.arslongavitabrevis.org\/products\/no-remains-no-remains-tape","provider":"Ars Longa Vita Brevis","version":"1.0","type":"link"}