Following up their 2015 Caligari Records tape EP Introspective Contemplation of the Microcosmus, Italian metal group Hadit, named after a Thelemic deity from Aleister Crowley's "The Book of the Law," have gotten together their debut full-length entitled With Joy and Ardour Through the Incommensurable Path. I get that a lot of metal bands tend to be gloriously verbose in their choice of song and album titles, but this struck me as a particularly appropriate title for a 2021 release.
The majority of this album thrashes and seethes, but it has some comparatively subdued doomy moments as well. Personally, I dug the shifting rhythmic structures, the way individual tracks seemed to do any number of different things while they played out, and the manner in which certain melodic motifs are utilized to hold things together.
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Premiering here, we’ve got the album’s second track, “A Digression and Her Eternal Domain Above the Atmosphere.” The full album releases on May 7th. Caligari Records’ cassette release can be found here, Sentient Ruin is handling the U.S. LP release, found here, and Terror From Hell Records has got the European LP and CD release here.
