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Black Reuss (Liechtenstein) - Journey  - Reviewed By metal-digest ! Check it out here at this link: https://metal-digest.com/2023/01/30/black-reuss-poems-by-r-w-brunhart-part-one/

Accomplished multi-instrumentalist and composer Maurizio Dottore brings us a longform EP/Mini Album “Poems by R.W. Brunhart, Part One”. Five tracks in a nudge over 32 minutes, all on a steady downward path of pace, pitch, and mood. This album (let’s call it an album) starts dark and Doom laden with chunky Industrial overtones as opener “Omnipresent Destiny” glides into focus with ominous synth swooshes and beep-boop bassline straight from 90’s NIN, and then massive, scooped guitars bring the weight of the chorus. From there on in, things take an increasingly darker turn…

The pace slows track by track to almost balladeer levels or torpidity, conversely the intensity and emotional engagement slowly build throughout. What starts as Darkwave Industrial gradually morphs into pseudo-John Grant soul-wracking by way of multiple dark alleys of the gloomier end of Alternative and Gothic tropes.

Does it hang together with its downward thematic slide? It has to be said you are unlikely to walk away at the end of this with a beaming smile and a skip in your step, it is overall a distinctly soporific and melancholic piece. But yes, it most certainly holds its own considerable musical mass, and the structure of the album travelling ever deeper into the darkness makes for a memorable listening experience. That this is all from the imagination and playing of one man is quite a feat. metal-digest

Release Date: May 6th, 2022

FFO: Paradise Lost, Type O Negative, Katatonia, Black Sabbath

Location: Principality of Liechtenstein

Black Reuss is at home in doomy heavy metal with a touch of melancholy and a certain heaviness, the heaviness that has accompanied Black Reuss in some chapters of his life.

After the metamorphosis, the second chapter journey begins. At this stage, Black Reuss realizes the need to think for himself and free himself from the grip of things that want to control his live. The courage to free from these bonds gives the momentum and the motivation to finally move on to the target, Arrival. "The only thing that is consistent, is that life constantly changes” Journey is about surrendering to inner preferences and being less and less controlled by material or negative things. Going through different stages, progresses as well as regresses. Sometimes Black Reuss experiences bliss, feelings, and inner peace. But he also realizes that there are always stumbling blocks on his journey...will he find his freedom and arrive? “Falling becomes easier and doesn't hurt the same”

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