No, “The Great Nothing” isn’t fast as hell, but it’s heavy as a ton and harder than steel. By the way, what to say about an album named “The Great Nothing”? Well, I guess the name says a lot as we as a kind are going to the great nothingness of existence as our planet will soon be a great nothing. The album reflects all this. It’s not only the emotion but the despair and hopelessness that are onboard. Ludovico Cioffi’s voice passes all these pretty well. Also does the instrumental which varies per track following the mood, and the contents, of the lyrics. The album is a lesson of how to make instrumentals, lyrics and vocals walk together side by side to mean the same ideal. Hard to tell if it is feeling of solitude and emptiness that talks louder or the despair and nothingness. I really don’t know.
The album starts a little shy, I must say. Album opener “The Conjunction of Benetnash” sounds at first a little symphonic and grand with lots of pomp. The sound of the horns give this greatness and grandness the song iniatilly delivers. But soon, little by little, the mood changes completely. The vagueness takes on and the album finally goes giving its contribution to this feeling of the millenia. I’d say that the album has a larger than life feeling but I guess it doesn’t fit in this case. Life here means no more life. The empty existence took over and left the room. Loneliness is the key. Nothing else. Mere mortals like us have only the nice and beautiful tunes Nightland gracefully gave us. Enjoy the end and the void.
Nightland “The Great Nothing” will be released on November 19th via Scarlet Records.
Track Listing:
- The Conjunction of Benetnash
- For Once My Name
- Shade of a Lowering Star
- Further
- Megaparsecs
- The Great Nothing pt. 1 Of Seeking and Straying
- The Great Nothing pt. 2 The Reliever
- The Great Nothing pt. 3 Pursuers of Absolution
Watch “Further” official video here:
