From their record label’s website, “Oceans Above” is an eclectic soundscape of Post Black Metal mixed with Progressive and- Technical Death Metal…a modern and exciting new approach to extreme music, with a thick and dark mix drawing the listener deep into the abyss. Melancholic acoustic passages and epic soaring melodies are followed up by a barrage of heavy, unsettling and dissonant darkness, swirling riffs, heavy blasts and extreme, almost schizophrenic vocals that will fully entice the listener.” The album has eight songs.

“Cult of the Cosmic Flood” is first. The opening tones are heavy, aggressive, contentious, and despondent. The vocals rage over a shifting landscape of weighted rhythms with softer, clean tones. “Corrosion of the Flesh” has a similar sound, and the intensity of the vocals is equaled only by the sad, melancholy nature of the more delicate passages. The title track is another dreadfully depressing song. It’s almost as if the subject has been screaming to the Gods for months, and now he is running low on his battery, and giving up.

“Guiding Lights to Eden” begins with clean despondent tones. Again, the misery that runs through the album is as evident as the anger. This is a more thoughtful, and pensive song. “Translusense” is agonizingly maddening. As the album moves forward, pieces of your sanity begins to loosen. Progressive elements are also stronger in this song, and the screams towards the end are totally gut-wrenching. “Pillars of Creation” is another offering that has a strong backbone with a healthy dose of sadness, and despair. Your world seems like it is crumbling in front of you. “Urban Misanthropy” hears some of the deep pain letting go a bit…just enough for you to take a breath and dive back in.

“Darkness Cloaks the Cradle” presents what is left of your life after all of the hits, and there isn’t much left. Overall, the album seems to have a cumulative effect that piles stacks of despair higher and higher, along with a deep burning of torture, as well as hopelessness. They feel so intense at times that you just want to scream to the sky in solitude over and over again, or crawl into a hole and give up on life. Warning…this dreadfully depressing album is not for the weak at heart.