Third album of the most intimate and personal project of the multifaceted Finnish singer Pasi Koskinen (Shape of Despair, To Separate the Flesh from the Bones, ex Amorphis…). This is a dense and dying Dark Metal record. Well, according to Pasi himself, Ajattara is an old-school Black Metal project, although the dark, oppressive mid-tempo environments and certain doom scene influences lead me to comparing it more with bands such as Bethlehem or Alastis than with old-school Black Metal ensembles.

"Tyhjyys" is a very homogeneous record, seamless, compact, which does not seem to want to differ at any time from its original script. All the tracks seem to have been produced with the same pattern where the atmosphere plays a predominant role. Thus "Tyhjyys" can be understood as a whole, where every riff and melody fit into the profile of a greater plan designed by Mr. Koskinen to make the listener enter a vortex that only the creator of the work knows where it ends.

A good extreme metal proposal for fans of dense and dying music.

Ivan Cateura
Translation: Fausto Navarro http://faustonavarro.com