BRÉVINE is a Post-Metal band from Lausanne, in the French speaking part of Switzerland. Founded in 2023, the band offers deep and authentic music, composed to be felt and experienced like an inner journey. In the band's words: "Lhotse" reflects humanity facing itself: dark, but capable of incredible strength. It's about an inner struggle, where you go through a storm of challenges, sometimes leaving people or parts of yourself along the way. When you finally reach the summit, thinking it may be over, you realize the journey isn't done. That's the core of our debut album: stepping out of the night, searching for hope — while remembering one thing above all: if there's a peak, it means there are valleys too."

The album has four songs, and "Ascension" is first. It leads in cautiously, with clean delicate guitar tones, and some tension in the background. Drums join in, and your sense of awareness is raised. Clean vocals are next, and that sense of tension heightens. When that big, weighted riff drops, it's like a giant stomping out a village. Harsh vocals combine with towering riffs, and the song goes from tense to angry. The clean tones return at the end, almost cleansing some of the soot from the harsh ones. "Cîme" begins in a similar fashion…with clean, gentle tones and more of that tension. It looms almost like a thick fog in the morning. It seems benign, even somewhat welcoming at first, but you know the tsunami is coming. The distorted riff doesn't hit as hard as it did before. Instead, it coexists with the melody, showing the band's restraint.

"Tempête" has another calm beginning, and it sounds like that moment of relaxation after a hard day at work. Firmer guitars enter, until an aggressive, weighted sound drops from the sky with raging vocals. The melodies remain strong, even with the storm. "Thalweg" closes the album, and even though the fire rages out of control at times, that light refuses to leave the room. It's an exercise in contrast, and done emphatically. The melodies are gorgeous, and combined with spoken word, make your heart ache for more. Clean vocals help to hold the sound from barreling over the precipice, and it dangles dangerously there. But, as with any sense of Doom, there is often a sense of hope that can't be extinguished. That is championed in this song.

What keeps the album from sinking into unrelenting bleakness is its remarkable sense of melody and restraint. Just when the walls of noise threaten to overwhelm, the music opens into passages of calm reflection: clean guitar lines shimmering through the haze, bass tones carrying an almost mournful weight, and melodies that feel fragile but determined to endure. This is Post Metal at its most evocative…an album that sounds like standing among ruins, feeling both the weight of what has been lost and the faint hope of what might be rebuilt.