Something might be wrong with me, but I do love me a good Atmospheric Black Metal album. I suffer from no depression, I’m amply motivated to get up every morning and go about my day, and I’m usually fairly enthusiastic about the whole enterprise of being alive regardless of how fucked up the world might be. Is this despite my love of Atmospheric Black Metal or because of it? Discuss.

On June 7, 2025, ETERNAL DISSONANCE (aka Pere Aguiló, aka Dargos) released their second full-length album, Through the Endless, via Darkwoods. For the unanointed, ETERNAL DISSONANCE is an Atmospheric Black Metal project of multi-instrumentalist Pere Aguiló based in Campos, Spain. This is the third album Aguiló has rendered under the ETERNAL DISSONANCE moniker since the year of our plague, 2020.

Through the Endless comprises four long running tracks, all north of the seven-minute mark. The album is purely instrumental with zero vocals. There is one guest artist, Ovaski, a bandmate from WOUNDED SOUL, who provides the acoustic guitar intro to “The Incandescent Light.” Very nice touch, that one.

Like most ABM albums, Through the Endless tracks as darkly spiritual. Despite what the project name may suggest, the tracks are melodic and soothing. Well, soothing for an extreme metalhead. It’s the type of music that makes you contemplate the void. Beautifully capturing the essence of the album is the cover art by Riaj Gragoth of Luciferium War Graphics. The cover depicts a gorgeous Northern sky backdropping a rocky forest. Looks cold and damp and very still. Hovering over it all is a completely indecipherable logo like some Eldritch horror scream made sentient.

I have to admit that most Atmospheric Black Metal sounds a lot alike to me. Or that might be a me thing as opposed to the subgenre or the artists that comprise it. Either way, I still love it. And if you listen long enough you will notice variations to the grayscape. Some are better than others, of course, and ETERNAL DISSONACE does more to add to the scene than subtract. If you need a distraction from the world by, say, contemplating the bleak sameness of the never-ending void, Through the Endless might do you some good.