Deep-pression - Vegtelen Tenger (2012)

Founded back in 2006 as, I believe, more of a depressive black metal act, Deep-pression has always functioned as an international project with perhaps its most notable members being Jan Šincl of Trist and Vrangsinn of Carpathian Forest, though sixteen members have passed through since the bands birth. All introductions aside, 'Vegtelen Tenger' the bands latest full-length effort is essentially a remastering of an earlier release titled 'An Endless Sea,' though the vocals have been completely re-recorded in Polish, instead of English. Why? I have no idea.

Musically Deep-pression finds themselves more-so within the ambient realm of things on 'Vegtelen Tenger' as the album opens with a simple but quite melancholic piano melody intermingled with spacious ambiance on 'Intro.' 'Syreny' comes next and it does well in characterizing the rest of this album well enough, which is essentially a mixture of dark haunting ambient synth, jangly bass guitar and slowly spoken slightly eerie voices in Polish. They fancy calling their style of music, Deepcreep. The whole vibe of the record is interesting since it has this sort of murky wetness to it, the cover partially made me feel this too, and because the atmosphere sort of reminded me of Procer Veneficus' 'Ghostvoices' album. Although the music isn't especially diverse it does however become increasingly hypnotic as it plays out and drags you under and into the bands own world of gloom. As such, its not really an everyday sort of album, but the emotions are rich and mostly unique in their delivery, thus making it an interesting release to listen to while relaxing or slowly passing into sleep (at least I've enjoyed it this way).

Over the years the band has been rather prolific and I have no idea if this record matches the bands more recent output, but at least here on 'Vegtelen Tenger' they achieve something special.