Starmourner
Starmourner Reviews: 9.5/10 – Return to my Blood 8.5/10 – Metal Injection 10/10 – Metal Mayhem 9/10 – HeavyMetal.dk 9.7/10 - Marunouchi Muzik Magazine 9.5/10 - GBHBL 9/10 – Lettere Dall’ Underground 9/10 – Metal Na Lata 9/10 – Far Beyond Written 9.2/10 – Infernal Masquerade 9/10 – Alt Dialogue 8/10 – Metal Assault 9/10 – Metal Discovery 9/10 – Schwermetallvergiftung 8.2/10 – Amps and Green Screens 6/6 – UghMetal 8.5/10 - Imperiumi 8.5/10 – Metal1.info 4/5 – Angry Metal Guy 10/10 - Adolfredo ProgFolker 5/5 – Blackened Promotions Quotes: “Starmourner is such an intelligent, immersive and transcendent album that it truly becomes an entity in and of itself. As an experience and an achievement, it is awe-inspiring.” – Far Beyond Written “Starmourner is an album that must be listened to be believed. Stunning and emotionally resonating at every junction it pushes Ghost Bath to the upper echelons of the new wave of blackgaze and atmospheric black metal.” – Alt Dialogue “Ghost Bath maintains their depressive tone in a more fashionable way than many bands of similar stature. Whereas black metal focuses on depressive tons of agony or hate, Ghost Bath seems to find a tone, acknowledging this pain, while able to find the hope or righteous side of the suffering without projecting the darkness as the soul of their sound.” – Metal Injection “Starmourner shatters the already-high expectations in Ghost Bath’s young career, and if you’ve got ears, you should hear it for yourself.” – Angry Metal Guy “With an album like this you really can’t trust anyone’s opinion other than your own since the record is so odd and untraditional everyone’s opinion on the album is going to be vastly different. But for me this album will be put on repeat for a long time before I get sick of it, if I ever do.” – Headbanger Heaven “From the gentle piano intro of “Astral” to the vibrant and triumphant radiance of “Seraphic”, the tone of the album is pushed ever outward to match the theme of an infinite dream. It’s a theme that weaves its way through the whole album. There are certainly tracks that dive back into blast beats and hyper tremolo picking such as “Ambrosial” and “Elysian”, but the theme always returns to shimmering and heroic major chords.” – The Sludge Lord “Starmourner is the kind of record where it would be difficult to find a song that couldn’t be considered a highlight. With as grim as they can be, they are also capable of uplifted melodies that give the listener a sense of hope and victory.” – Echo Eyes "...an exceptionally important album for the black metal genre." – Metal Discovery “This is the best album Ghost Bath have released & a serious contender for album of the year.” – GBHBL “I can’t stop listening to this. I can’t stop enjoying this.” – Wonderbox Metal
As a group maturates and develops, similar to the aging of edible elements procuring quality in exchange for time, so does the sound, body, and soul of the artists touch, and goal.
A review of Starmourner by Ghost Bath, available April 21th worldwide via Nuclear Blast.