I know essentially nothing about Hysteria, the woman behind the band Haunted, and I am completely okay with that. If I am being honest, the obscurantism and mystery of bands in this space is kind of my favorite thing about certain types of black metal and doom metal. I would add a new negation to the now-infamous Deathlike Silence motto " NO CORE NO TRENDS NO FUN NO MOSH" -- NO STARS. I like to think of it as the metal version of the "Fuck The DJ" trend in electronic music.
I do know, however, that Saturnine is a great EP. Melancholy, morose, serene, audio sadness, of a kind that I normally associate with Catania, Italy and War Against Yourself records in particular. This is not a "genre spanning" album in the sense of having some tracks in different genres. This is a synthesis of the parts of multiple genres that Hysteria likes and wants to employ in the service of atmosphere-making, and I love it.
It is obvious that a lot of thought and planning went in to making something both this restrained and this hard to quantify. This is 3am-light-a-candle-because-you're-a-little-bit-drunk-and-no-one-in-the-whole-world-will-care-what-time-you-wake-up-tomorrow music.
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