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Swiss Black Metal is no new card on the table. Cultivated by the likes of Hellhammer/Celtic Frost and Samael early on, and bands such as Darkspace and Paysage D´Hiver in more recent years, this rather small country has always had an excellent leading artistry; and it's no less so with the likes of Tardigrada. Emotionale Ödnis (emotional wasteland) marks the band`s debut record that follows up on their already excellent demonstration mark "Widrstand" from 2012 and rare live performances.
With all lyrics mainly done in the swiss dialect, Tardigrada present a darkly melancholic voyage; lush with atmosphere and texture. Recorded and finalized at Iguana Studios and featuring custom artwork by Misanthropic Art, 'Emotionale Ödnis' sets the listener on a bleak sonic journey over the duration of 60 minutes. Intertwined with instrumental passages, just like a flickering dull light carried through a colourless landscape, it is a prime example of deep breathing, sorrowful black metal; ripe in execution and character.
"…there is a distinctive sound and the musicians switch easily from minimalist BM noise to a more melody and riff-based style. The guys paint huge and overwhelming atmospheres of bleak hopelessness that bear down on listeners with a barrage of minimalist tremolo guitars." - The Metal Archives’
“make black metal depressive again with Tardigradas” - NOISEY by VICE
” Raw, aggressive, atmospheric Swiss Black Metal” - The Metal Observer
” ’Emotionale Ödnis” is a duality – icy and blistering but organic and soft. Kryptos and Threnos’s guitars, awash with an arsenal of effects, overflow like turbid water: cloudy and alien but smooth and fluid” - Invisible Oranges
”Tardigrada create black metal with shadowy heavy storming on cruishing ’Emotionale Ödnis’ – Meat mead metal
8.5/10 Metalhead.it
9/10 The Metal Observer
9/10 Metal.de
8/10 Xtreem Music
5/5 nightfall.fr
12/15 Legacy
80/100 the Metal Archives
8.5/10 Hell is Open
8,5/10 Tombstone Mag
4/6 Metallian
11/13 Schwermetall.ch