Brutal Fantasies

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  2026 Albums

  Pete Brown

  This album is on my short-list for favorite releases of the week. If I were to drop it from that list, it would be because of the subject matter, which is fucking bleak.

  Blade and Bath is a one-man band from Ukraine, and if you're feeling depressive or bad about yourself and your life, I would not recommend this album or band for you. If you hadn't guessed it from the band name, most of these songs are about depression, suicide, and death, so consider yourself warned.

  What really strikes me about this album is how it is simultaneously melancholy and ecstatic. Track after track, it is just orders of magnitude more emotional than most black metal out there, and it all works really well. So if you are up for some psychologically harrowing metal, this album is well worth your time, but I do get that it's likely not for everyone (even as black metal goes).