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Russian blackgaze duo Olhava is back with their new studio album. Frozen Blooom is the natural follow-up to self-titled Olhava (2019) and Ladoga (2020), and integrates some dronescapes the band experimented on Never Leave Me Alone (2020), the drone version of their debut.

Multi-instrumentalist Andrey Novozhilov and drummer Timur Yusupov describe their new journey with words of thoughtful contemplation: “When winter is just starting to fade and give some space to the first steps of spring… When life starts to reappear and the very early flowers peek through the thawing soil, a sudden drop of the temperature can leave them petrified and frozen back again, punished by the “Queen of Fields”. This statuesque dead beauty, being infinitely alive and dead at the same time is the main metaphor of this album. Frozen Bloom is about unfulfilled dreams. About how we sacrifice everything today for some abstract “tomorrow”, which may never come. But tomorrow and yesterday don’t exist – only this very moment of static contemplation is real”.

Frozen Bloom is Olhava’s fourth opus in three years, and here the duo took some different routes compositionally. Two of the four tracks are traditionally storm-like blackgaze passages, while the other two are leaning towards a more meditative drone experience. The album also features A. Lunn, who kindly agreed to record an electric guitar solo as well as acoustic parts and choral parts on “Frozen Bloom I”.

Frozen Bloom was recorded at Olhava home studios, as well as at the local rehearsal space. Mikhail Kurochkin took care of mixing and mastering.

1. Glück 11:09
2. Geisterschiff 07:53
3. Dunkler Mann 08:39
4. Findling 09:44
5. Der Pakt 07:56
6. Das Ende 08:38

The return of this outstanding Black Metaloutfit from Germany. The lyrics of this album are all written in bavarian language. The music is tight, wellproduced (as oppossed to some older material) and comes with a very gloomy yet agressive feeling. Sick!
The album is a mix between Elixir of Sorrow and Zyklus.

Digipack CD
 

- Digipak CD (7" cover size) Of 350gsm Stock Paper With Glued In Black CD-Tray, Scratch-resistant
Matt Lamination
- 20 Page Booklet, 168x168 mm, Full-color Printed On 150gsm Art Paper
- 336x336 mm One Sided Full-color Poster, Printed On 150gsm Art Paper
- All Assembled Into A Plastic Overbag
- Limited To 1000 Copies
- Track 8 Is A Bonus Song For The Japanese Vinyl And This CD Edition

Partially metalized clear substrate CDs in fold-out lotus shaped packaging, held together by an OBI strip

2CD version, 8-page digipack in 300gsm b-b cardboard, silver laminate + matt UV varnish.
8-page “Moksha” booklet + 5-panel “Nirvana” folder.

10TH ALBUM ANNIVERSARY EDITION
The album contains the tracks from the sold out 10″ MLP 20:11.
DIGIPACK: 4 panel color print, 300g b-b cardboard, glossy UV varnish
SLIPCASE: color print, silver laminate + glossy UV varnish; assembly and sealing into foil.

DIGIPACK: 4-panel, silver laminate + partial white underprint + glossy UV lacquer.
BOOKLET: 12 pages, 150gsm glossy paper.
SLIPCASE: silver laminate + glossy UV varnish.