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"Torn between brutal darkness and rumbling beauty, "Gnosis" reveals a Russian Circles in tune with a painful post rock with the appearance of an emotional roller coaster."
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4/5
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Like many albums released recently, "Gnosis" was born during the pandemic that ankylosed the planet. And like many bands, Russian Circles didn't escape the doubts and melancholy that this confused and troubled period imposed. The music recorded by the Illinois trio is not known for its joyful or even light expression, so it was likely that the conditions that presided over the creation of this eighth opus would further nourish the stormy darkness inherent to this powerfully emotional post-metal.
Never have the Americans displayed such anger, such a desire to fight, as a response to an uncomfortable situation conducive to an obviously cathartic questioning. The result is a raw and austere effort, like a visual case whose greyish purity invites a painful introspection. "Gnosis" strikes first of all by its extremely massive character that irrigates Mike Sullivan's sharp riffs, thick as high voltage cables. Thus, 'Tupilak' locks us in from the start with its cataclysmic heaviness. The second part of the track sounds like a leaden and tumultuous Leviathan before dying in an ocean of tense and stratospheric beauty.
The energetic 'Conduit', 'Vlastimil' almost black metal pulse and even more 'Betrayal' tighten a little more this severe vise that no light seems to want to polish. The three musicians appear there in unison of a despair, imposing the feeling to approach an aggressive work and deprived of smoothness. The latter is not, however, spurned from a menu that is at times cracked by a timid sweetness as well as a deaf fragility.
If the pointillist delicacy of 'Gnosis' fights with a paroxysmal hardness culminating on the end of album, 'O Braonain' astonishes by its dreamy effluences, short breath in the middle of this black tide that stops nevertheless the terminal 'Bloom', atmospheric conclusion whose intimist appearances do not exempt it from a pulsative and fogged melancholy, way however of closing this episode on a note charged with a pale hope. The horizon clears and a future perhaps more lenient announces itself.
Torn between brutal darkness and rumbling beauty, "Gnosis" reveals a Russian Circles in tune with a painful post rock with the appearance of an emotional roller coaster. - Official website
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TRACK LISTING:
 01. Tupilak - 06:33
02. Conduit - 04:30
03. Gnosis - 07:47
04. Vlastimil - 06:43
05. Ó Braonáin - 01:45
06. Betrayal - 05:19
07. Bloom - 0:56
LINEUP:
Brian Cook: Basse
Dave Turncrantz: Batterie
Mike Sullivan: Guitares
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