ARCANA COELESTIA offers a lot of different facets – they fascinate through weird atmosphere as well as beautiful melodies and melancholic moments.
At first listening, some calm, gently floating melodies shimmer through the broad and unloading structure of only four songs, starting with track one, entitled Cult Of Solitude. Spherical keyboards fit the scene perfectly and the listener gets the impression of being in safety caused by choral-like chants. The song goes on this way for a few minutes, but the band plays with contrasts – suddenly impelling double bass hammers destroy the silent sentiment in seconds. The voice gets more and more intense and screeches at best. Afterwards the composition ends very calmly. In further course it is not possible to lean back and enjoy in relaxation during listening to ARCANA COELESTIA, because the group stays unpredictably. The principle of contrasts is really important on the two parts of Arcane Knowledge Revealed, just with the difference that the one-man-band slows down enormously in between. The fast pieces get more intensity because of this counterpart. The second part of Arcane Knowledge Revealed features hefty Black Metal elements speeding up without grace.
Unfortunately I miss the impelling glimpse, the melancholy pulling you down to the ground, though ARCANA COELESTIA try hard. They are able to build up certain effects without doubt and their effort turns out to be a cumbersome work which needs some time to get addressed to, this is definitely no background tune. Ubi Secreta Colunt is a nice Doom album with some Black Metal doses.