Nibiru are a solo project from Italy that h as had music reviewed before in this zine and on this recording goes for a psychedelic and ritualistic mixture of black, sludge, doom metal, drone, industrial and ambient and this is a review of his 2026 album "Hypostasis' which will be released on February 27th by Argonauta Records.
A very distorted sound starts off the album along with some keyboards which also adds in elements of ambient at times and avant garde style choirs. Samples are also used briefly before going into a heavier direction while the slower sections of the album are also heavily rooted in sludge and doom metal.
Spoken words are also utilized at times while the harsh vocals are done in more of a black metal style. Most of the tracks are also very long and epic in length along with some of the guitar riffing also adding in more of a noisier approach to playing as well as the faster sections also adding in blast beats and tremolo picking.
At times the music also gets very repetitive sounding along with drones also being utilized quite a bit throughout the album. The recording also has its ritualistic moments as well as the tracks also adding in touches of industrial, darkwave and post punk, clean playing can also be heard briefly and each song also sounds very different from each other. The production sounds very dark and lo-fi while the lyrics cover Alchemy, Occultism, Egyptian Magick, Philosophy and Voodoo themes.
In my opinion this is another great sounding recording from Niburu and if you are a fan of psychedelic and ritualistic black, sludge, doom metal, drone, ambient and industrial, you should check out this album. RECOMMENDED TRACKS INCLUDE "Azoth" and "Obeah". 8 out of 10.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-3mm8OrahE&feature=youtu.be
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