Chiral
Gazing Light Eternity

"July 8, 1890

Theo, my brother, today I felt tired, more tired than usual, yet I decided to go out anyway, with canvas and brushes in hand, and head towards the wheat fields, those endless expanses of fragile gold that fascinate me so much. And no matter if it's hot: I felt the need to sit among those ears and lose myself in the gold and blue of the sky.
Once I got there, I realized that the nature around me was speaking to me; rather, more than that, it was reading my soul. You know how much I respect it, how much I see in its actions a purpose higher than us, which no one can understand, but never before today have I felt such terror in front of it. The wheat fields suddenly seemed vast, endless, the three paths, which I have walked many times, now seemed twisted and without a precise destination, confused. The sky, which initially seemed blue, suddenly began to darken, with dark and threatening clouds that seemed ready to unleash their hatred and fury against the gold on the ground. For a moment, I felt like that little bird in a cage I told you about some time ago, powerless as it stares, beyond the bars of its cell, at a swollen and stormy sky, and feels weak, a victim of its own fate. And those crows, that mad black flock, they themselves apparently overwhelmed by the imminent flame of the storm, those crows drove me mad, and their cawing pecked out of my head bad and dark omens.
This is my life, Theo, this is what I feel now, and nature is shouting it to the world in my place: I feel sad, alone, abandoned in the face of nothingness and fate.
I am desperate, I see no way out, but I am convinced that this painting I am leaving you will be able to tell you what I cannot say in words.
A hug, Vincent."

Behind the moniker Chiral hides the talented Teo, a multi-instrumentalist from Piacenza who, with this "Gazing Light Eternity," delivers his second full album (excluding demos, EPs, and side projects). A first listen to the four long tracks of the present work already allows you to identify the main traits of his proposal: Chiral plays an atmospheric black metal that is obsessive, harrowing in its repetitiveness, a descendant of various Lustre and the depressive Australian scene. There is no shortage of references to the timor panico of Cascadia, which emerges both in the bucolic and arcane landscapes outlined by his music and in the more folk-oriented inserts, where the love for the acoustic guitar and neo-folk textures, so dear, for example, to Agalloch, takes over.
"Gazing Light Eternity" is a complex and multifaceted album: meditative and at the same time disheartening, restless and simultaneously enjoyable because it reflects our thoughts. It's a work to cherish for the colder periods of the year when beautiful sunny days are accompanied by the icy winter wind, or when the last warmth of autumn is countered by the cold carpet of dead leaves we tread on the ground. A musical reality of the Italian black panorama to definitely keep an eye on.