APOCLIBBON DOSHOL — Far Beyond… Rat Covenant, 2026
APOCLIBBON DOSHOL is the work of one person: Th3 Tr0ll, the Galicia-based multi-instrumentalist behind every layer here, with Sylvn stepping in for the occasional vocal passage. Far Beyond… is his third full-length, following Nowhere Near StarS (2017) and Koroonmorggor (2022), and it points where this project always has — outward, into the cold and the empty. He calls it interstellar black metal, and the music backs that up. These seven tracks care less about riffs that grab you than about the vacuum between them, that sense of drifting somewhere airless and very far from home.
The guitars are the reason to be here: the atmospheric melodies are the strongest thing on the record, and the melancholy in them is what keeps the dissonance listenable. The vocals are pitched as something half-buried — apocalyptic cries clawing their way up through the riffs rather than sitting on top of them. It's a deliberate choice and it suits the material; the voice sounds like one more thing being swallowed by the murk rather than a frontman commanding it.
The weak link is the drums. You notice them — they sit on top of the music rather than belonging to it, and at moments they get too simplistic.
Worth flagging how it was made. Th3 Tr0ll tracked the entire album with analog tools, finishing it this past January at Nido de Ranas Studio, and it arrives as a hand-numbered cassette through Germany's Rat Covenant or digipack via artist's Bandcamp. In 2026, recording everything analog is almost a stand on its own — against the digital presets, the copy-paste shortcuts, the slow creep of AI into how music gets made. You can hear the choice in how raw and rough the record sounds, and it's hard not to respect it.
A solid, properly atmospheric record carried by its guitars and vocals — decent, with its moments, and enough potential to make the next one worth hearing.
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