Violet Cold - kOsmik - CD

With every album, Guliyev seems to be growing in confidence. Anomie was an improvement over Magic Night not simply because it included vocals, but because it was also more comfortable wearing its raw emotions on its sleeve. kOsmik is a greater improvement still. Violet Cold employs a dizzying and eclectic array of techniques and styles, from dissonant black metal ("Black Sun"), to post metal ("Ultraviolet"), to somber funeral doom ("Space Funeral"). Unlike other black metal outfits, Violet Cold is not concerned with trying to pummel you into hopeless submission. Rather, like contemporaries Alcest and Panopticon, the band uses black metal as a launching pad to explore more complex ideas. In this case, the notion of the cosmos itself, with all its cold beauty, loneliness and violence.