Finnish Symphonic Black Metal formation …AND OCEANS, have released an official music video for its new single “Within Fire And Crystal”. The song is taken from the band’s upcoming album “As In Gardens, So In Tombs”, which will be released on January 27th via Season Of Mist.
…AND OCEANS comment on the track: “A journey through tongues of fire, towards the crystal walls. And to return with the Key from the Observer.”
It’s rare for a band to commandingly return with their best effort to date, but Finland’s …AND OCEANS are here to prove that 2020’s “Cosmic World Mother” was the sound of creative floodgates bursting through into a new body of water, an ocean if you will. Well, that was their pinnacle up until their new album, “As In Gardens, So In Tombs”, is let out into the world. Everything that …AND OCEANS’ first full-length in 18 years did well – blistering Symphonic Black Metal, heady themes that dealt with the connection between philosophy and psychics, and …AND OCEANS’ trademark adventurous songwriting – “As In Gardens, So In Tombs” manages to eclipse and recontextualize. It’s the sound of a band seizing every ounce of momentum and upping the ante in every way. While …AND OCEANS has never written the same album twice, in many ways, their latest sounds like an opportunity for the Finnish group to pick up and improve upon what they started. Symphonic Black Metal is never this fun, free, and fantastic.
“As In Gardens, So In Tombs” track listing:
- As in Gardens, so in Tombs
- The Collector and His Construct
- Within Fire and Crystal
- Carried on Lead Wings
- Likt Törnen Genom Kött
- Cloud Heads
- Wine into Water
- Inverse Magnification Matrix
- The Earth Canvas
- Ambivalent God
You can watch the offiical music video for “Within Fire And Crystal” below:
