Music in Low Frequencies – Catharsis

One Listen Review

1st Listen – 6 Dec 2023
Reviewed – 8 Dec 2023

Music in Low Frequencies – Catharsis

Raging Planet Records

Released 8 Dec 23

Sometimes an album just reaches out and grabs you on the first listen. This is the case with Portuguese Blackened Post Metal trio, Music in Low Frequencies. Originally formed in 2012 by 3 friends, Catharsis follows their 2014 debut album, ‘Sowing the Seed’, offering the listener deep, menacing riffs, incredibly strong vocals and delivering a very enjoyable listening experience.

Catharsis is an album with a deceptively gloomy tone. I say deceptively, because it is not an album that brings you down, the gloominess of the album is strangely uplifting. Opening track, ‘Web of Questions’, has a very brief spacey psychedelia vibe that follows a subtle pace change midway through the song. ‘Unconscious’ features a slightly more sludge-based riff that offsets the darker overtones of the album. ‘Unborn Pride’ has a riff that promises to hurt you, to do damage to your internal organs, building towards the end of the song, where guitarist Sergio Ferreira has the riff spitting out his guitar.

There are a couple of things that could potentially upset some people. In most of the tracks, there is often an underlying riff that teeters on the edge of repetition. Music in Low Frequencies

handle this well, through building variety and pace changes throughout the tracks themselves. There are also melodic overtones that offset these riffs as well, so if this is the thing that upsets listeners, they can do one and sod off!

The final bit of praise has to go to vocalist, Mariana Faísca. Throughout the album, her dirty vocal style enhances each and every song. Then, all of a sudden, a beautiful clean vocal is heard and part of you wishes that most tracks had a mixture of the 2 styles.

With Catharsis, we are provided with an album that is enjoyable from the very first riff. Music in Low Frequencies have released an album where I cannot wait to listen for a 2^nd time after I’ve finished writing this one listen review. A fellow reviewer at the main site I write for, www.metalepidemic.com advises in his review that it takes multiple listens to appreciate this album’s depth. I cannot wait to dive in.

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