Closing track Closure is exactly that, yet it also feels like the band's defining statement. In an increasingly crowded genre where originality can be difficult to achieve, Mountainscape have carved out a sound that feels unmistakably their own. Richly orchestrated, emotionally resonant and endlessly uplifting, it's a piece that genuinely lives up to the album's title, you quite literally feel like you do traverse realms.

There’s a frightening precision to how Sagor Som Leder Mot Slutet operate here. Melodies emerge from the void, patient and deliberate, coiling around a bassline that feels ancient and immovable. Subtle orchestral textures flicker in the background, adding an eerie, almost cinematic weight to everything. The result is sinister, and utterly commanding, and for me this is the band fully submerged in their “happy place!”.

The sheer scale of their sound is impossible to ignore here, a dense, six-piece sonic force that batters you with precision and conviction right from the get-go. Every track feels alive, shifting between crushing intensity and haunting melody. For me, there’s a deep familiarity here too with echoes of the classic doom metal acts like Paradis Lost, Moonspell, and Tiamat woven deep into their fabric. It’s subtle and powerful but all the time Void Of Light are forging something

In the end, Coastlands stands as the band’s most transformative statement to date. If I’m completely honest, it took me the last four weeks to finally feel this album and understand where the band were going with it. Once it clicks with you, then you’ll see that it’s a deeply textural, and beautifully gazed reimagining of their identity, proving that reinvention can be both risky, but ultimately for the band, personally rewarding.

There’s a certain kind of beauty that only reveals itself when everything around it is falling apart, and Laursetine, from So Hideous, thrives within that chaos. This is not an album for casual listening, it’s a descent into a meticulously arranged storm. Every track bleeds cinematic grandeur, yet the emotional core is raw enough to leave you scraped and exposed.

This two-track EP unfolds like a dialogue of opposing forces, each piece a vast, immersive soundscape that rises and shifts with the weight of nature’s ferocious elements. TRNA embraces contrast in its purest form, letting sound move between turbulence and serenity until both emotions blur into something transcendent.