Four pieces of black metal about the cosmos sum up this short work. The artist and sound engineer behind Dione is Krystian Lukaszewicz, who as the founder of Black Aura Audio offers “sound, chaos and music production”.
Fire and fury are what starts this off. There is a morbidly hanging riff. But dominating “Moon” is turbulence. The only cosmic element is the haunting sound at the end. Away it goes, another straight line, blasting, contemptuous piece of black metal follows. This is “Cosmological Fractals”. The song breaks away into discomforting irregularity, returning to the direct and imposing world of black metal. I can’t say I thought of the cosmos or of fractals while listening to it. “From Obliteration to Macrocosm” then thunders forward in its menacing way. It exudes power and malevolence, slowing down accentuating the menace with a slowed down, almost post metal section in the middle. Atmospherically it points to chaos and destruction. Doom starts off “Resonance Upon the Unknown”. Progress is funereal. All roads point to death and destruction. Once again in post-metal style the song builds up, and wordlessly a melancholic guitar line is pumped out until it fades away in the mist.
`I confess I expected something more sophisticated than this. The cosmic element passed me by. What we had from “Cosmosphere” were four atmospheric pieces of black metal darkness. It’s not bad at all, and there are good developments in the songs, but it didn’t shake me to the core.
(6/10 Andrew Doherty)
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