Genune – Infinite Presence
Genune – Infinite Presence
Consouling Sounds
Release Date: 17/05/2025
Review by Metalphysicist
9/10
The Romanian-based band Genune delivers an Atmospheric Shoegaze musical style mixed with Avant-Garde Black Metal on its latest album, “Infinite Presence” available on black vinyl, cool blue vinyl, CD, and digital formats. “Infinite Presence” is the second album from Genune, and it sounds very introspective and feels like the album’s six songs surpass moments of agony and emptiness along with more clear and melodic passages, which is a real deal to tormented souls, just like mine.
Victor Neicutescu vocals are very inspiring, rotating his tone according to squeaky moments that reminded me Dani Filth (“God Speed on the Devil’s Thunder”) and then switching to Peter Sreele-like gothic and graceful sounding dramatic vocal lines, probably to establish an outstanding duel between Victor Neicutescu and István Vladăreanu, but I am not sure if both of them share leading vocals, but I guess so.
I’d like to highlight two songs on “Infinite Presence”. The first one is the title track, ‘Infinite Presence’, that sounded to me like the most ambient and shining acoustic guitar and synths that homologues the melodic interaction between the instruments ( Cosmin Farcău – guitars and Dragoș Chiricheș on the guitars, synths, acoustic guitar share vocals duties). I think that ‘Infinite Presence’ is played in C minor key, reminiscent of some landscapes created by Jimmy Page in the old days.
Confronting the light sonority of ‘Infinite Presence’ the ambience drops, in sequence, is the heaviest song on the record,‘To Not Grow Old’, which is conducted by punishing blast beats, benefited by the bass guitar that is responsible for make the transition to the typical Black Metal melancholic guitar strums. This paints in black all the previous harmonies delivered on ‘Infinite Presence’. That’s an excellent contrast between white and black over nine minutes of pure melody and punishing Black Metal, which feels like a painting in grey (mixing the /white/ and /black/ extremities).
The production on “Infinite Presence” made all the difference to the sonority of the album as a whole, because the producer was able to mix the bright/dark passages in perfect measure, along with shoegaze sauce (on ‘To Not Grow Old’), with the help of these above-talented musicians, creating a mini-operatic post-Metal sonority for the album.
If you are into that kind of complex music flow – almost an operatic opus – I assure you that “Infinite Presence” is the perfect album to be listened to in your shadiest moments.
TRACKLISTING:
01. The Sun Will Aways Shine
02. Little Fountains
03. Stay a Little Longer
04. Infinite Presence
05. To Not Grow Old
06. I Want You Here
LINE-UP:
Dragoș Chiricheș – guitars, synths, acoustic guitar
Cosmin Farcău – guitars
István Vladăreanu – bass, voice
Abel Păduret – drums
Victor Neicutescu – voice
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