Dirge – Vanishing Point

Releasedate: 26-03-2021
Label: Division Records

Dirge is a French formation making Post Metal. The band has been around for many years and releases now an album full of rarities of 25 years of Dirge. The release is called “Vanishing Point” and is available now.

With introduction given you could wonder if the band has a meaning with the name of this release. Is there more of Dirge to come? A question the band has answered by calling it quits, but focusing on the release itself you can surely see that the band has been doing a variety of tastes through the year. From dreamy melancholic towards cold and heavy, the band has collected a wide range of tracks for this release. A couple of live tracks are included in the release just as some remixes. Album opening “Wounding Chakras” being one of the tracks that really lures one in and most tracks after that follow up nicely until you come halfway when they kind of break a bit with the songs before and explore different paths. Like an album, followed by bonus material except that the entire release is basically bonus material from quality.

The band certainly gives their fans a nice goodbye gift, many minutes on the counter make that fans can spend a lot of hours listening to some material they have not heard yet. If you have not heard of the band before, the release may not be the one to start with, but it is nice to see that they released this album for all these people who followed them over 25 years of Dirge.

Line up:

• Marc T.
• Alain B.
• Stéphane L.
• Luz

Track list:

1. Wounded Chakras
2. S.N.T.D.F.
3. Bastard
4. East
5. The Coiling
6. Submarine
7. A Short Term Effect
8. Sine Time Oscillations
9. Meure Menace (Dirge Remix)
10. Below (Twist Of The Knife)
11. Absence
12. Distance
13. A Rebours
14. Absence (ОТКРОВЕНИЕ)
15. Carrion Shrine
16. Incendiary Dreams (Empyrean Reconstruction by Kill The Thrill)
17. Hosea 8-7 (In the Hands of Treha Sektori)
18. Epicentre (live)
19. The Endless (live)

Links:

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