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Rosa Mystica | Cauchemar

Rosa Mystica by Cauchemar, released 16 May 2022 1. Jour de colère 2. Rouge sang 3. Notre-Dame-sous-Terre 4. Danger de nuit 5. Rosa mystica 6. Le tombeau de l'aube 7. Volcan 8. La sorcière Rising from their moss-covered crypt, Cauchemar is back with their third full-length, Rosa Mystica, the band’s first offering since 2019’s Trapped Under Ice compilation. Meticulously composed and rehearsed to perfection, the album is a fully realized expression of Cauchemar’s signature sound of somber traditional doom delivered with the vigor of heavy metal. Perhaps owing to two of the members’ recent migration from Montreal to rural Quebec, the atmosphere on Rosa Mystica is spacious and rustic, gilded by the warm glow of stained-glass luminescence through which cuts the burnished weight of François Patry’s guitars. Settled within bassist Andres Arango and drummer Joël Ladouceur’s vaulted geometry, the austere muscular riffs drive the songs, haunted by the spectral radiance of organs and Annick