Tag: "Consecration" (Oldest Sea song)

The stately and desolate riffing that Oldest Sea uses to introduce “Consecration” sounds like something you’d hope to hear from a band with a name like that and a song title with that resonance of language. It’s crackling distortion sculpting and hanging dynamics in the classic transcendental black metal vein. But when the vocals come in they are ghostly yet emotionally rich. The lyrics seem to take a feeling of emptiness and of being at a low point and turning that into something transcendent and climbing the lurching steps of the crushing guitar chords and finely accenting drums to a different place outside of that void that you know you’ll find yourself in once again but also knowing you can build a ladder out of it with seemingly nothing at all if you can imbue it with a meaning that comes from a place beyond your immediate psychological state. Fortunate are the people who have never been in a place in their head where you feel like you have nothing left, the product of a slow or even quick descent into depression and what once sustained you seems beyond reach and maybe something so seemingly unlikely like a heavy and cosmically melodic black metal song feels like a scaffolding to a space where one’s connection to at least that emotional uplift eases a sense of meaning and positive emotional sensation into your brain. Listen to “Consecration” on Spotify and follow Oldest Sea on Instagram.