Code
Nouveau Gloaming

THE REVIEW

Finally!
After myriad of useless black metal releases, these Code emerge, a band hiding under anonymous guises, concealing among various nicknames members of Dodheimsgard, Void, and Ulver, namely, Vicotnik (ex Ved Buens Ende) on bass and backing vocals, Kvhost on vocals, and Oliver Lancelot (ex Arcturus) on drums.
The premises are there, at this point all that's left is to press the “play” button and make yourself comfortable... A procedure not exactly in line with the “Nordic rot” to which black metal bands have accustomed us.

However, Code seem to be a reality far from the black metal clichés, and if “The Cotton Optic” has a vibe reminiscent of the latest Satyricon, from “Brass Dogs” onwards, things start to get serious. The rhythms become increasingly slower, the clean vocals more and more lysergic, and the atmospheres increasingly surreal, drawing heavily from the masterpiece by Ved Buens Ende “Written In Waters”, and a bass constantly in the foreground (Skoll leaves his early disciples) acting as the conductor.
Among the dooming echoes of “A Cloud Formed Teardrop Asylum”, the accelerations of “Aeon In Cynder’s” and the hallucinatory nightmares of “Ghost Formula”, there is an air of lucid madness, of perfectly managed chaos by these 5 madmen who have birthed an album that is hard to assimilate but will not delay entering your personal top list.

Avant-garde black metal, extremely original and not at all predictable.
A genre that has sown little but harvested much with bands of absolute value like Solefald, Ved Buens Ende, Fleurety, Arcturus (perhaps they are in a league of their own), and naturally Code with this gem… “Noveau Gloaming”.
Perfect.