Release Date February 27th, 2026
Format CD/Digital
Genre Funeral/Doom/Death Metal
Country Georgia
Ennui crawled out
of Tbilisi, Georgia, forming along the banks of the Kura River to spread
absolute auditory misery. They stacked up four monolithic albums over the
years, tearing a massive hole in the extreme metal underground. They kicked
things off in 2012 with "Mze Ukunisa", dragging inspiration out of Terentio Graneli’s poetry, and eventually dropped
"End Of The Circle" in 2018 to crush skulls with pure sorrow. Their
entire existence revolves around agonizing devastation and total darkness. Now
they return with "Qroba", translating to vanishment, ready to drag
listeners into a black hole of suffering.
You hit play and the destruction
crashes down instantly. Staggering chords and drum beats roll in like distant
thunder, bringing an immeasurable scale of ruin to your speakers. Extreme
vocals tear through the noise, dragged up from the most miserable depths
imaginable. Ennui blasts towering riffs on "Antinatalism" to violently
rip the sun out of the sky. Total agony washes over the listener without mercy.
Massive guitars grind your bones into the frozen dirt on "Becoming
Void", joined by freezing, agonizing melodies crawling out of the
wasteland. It is cold, punishing, and utterly devastating.
Greg Chandler handled the
mixing and mastering, applying the same agonizing scale he brought to Officium Triste and Pantheist.
He layered the misery with true depth, ensuring the pain sounds incredibly
authentic. The visual side mirrors the audio punishment, with artwork created
by Ben J 'Winterkeep' and extra design from Vladimir 'Smerdulak' Chebakov. The entire package
delivers a heavy dose of pure nothingness. Ennui
executes their punishing vision of despair thoroughly, delivering the kind of
misery extreme metal requires.
Score: 7.5
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