Even for doom adepts, Rapture are really careful with sound and vocals. This release of Helsinki based sextet is the same way thoughtful and melodic as their previous Futile and Songs For Withering. If you need some clue, it sounds like classic Paradise Lost or Katatonia (“Brave Murder Day” period). Silent Stage is pure harmonies and consonance of the guitars and keyboards and two vocalists: while Henri Villberg sings, Petri Eskelinen adds death growls into the picture. Each one is the half of a bomb. This is like handwriting – the tonic lines of the first one are accompanied by the lower and more moving underlines performed by the second. More range, more diapason of emotions, more sense… Excellent! Here we also have a crystal clear sound and a powerful melody in every one of the nine tracks.

And if you are free minded enough to wander throughout the labyrinth of dreams and nightmares, the unknown lands and unnameable feelings; look no further. It’s for you. Light, but cursed for ever, even with some gothic incorporations, this doom metal narration could be a soundtrack to Lovecraft’s stories of the old forbidden cities. Yeah, also for me it reminded some psychedelic journeys of Pink Floyd, but these canvases are stranger: glass clear mind take it more real and more dreadful. So, turn off the light, take some sips of wine and let’s enjoy.