Oneiric Visions is the second full-length album from Bangkok’s Shambles, and it’s a bluntly brutal yet bone-rattling slice of blacked death doom. The album takes in eight mainly lengthy tracks, which shift between speeding grim rawness, mid-paced black glamouring’s, and slugging to staggering doom-outs.

The album appears on Poland’s Old Temple- coming as either a CD, or digital download- I’m reviewing the latter which comes with an eight-page inlay booklet, which features lyrics and ritual-connected illusions. The album can be found here. 

The album slides in at just over the forty-six-minute mark. And though throughout its shifts in pace, it remains blackly nihilistic, and barrenly battering- with each track (aside from the short instrumental) lined with blacked croaks and barks. We move from the angularly grim seesawing riff slug and percussion smarts of “Formulars Of Magic Death”, which as it moves along shifts into hoping battering mid-pace-ness. Onto the rolling tarry croaks meets doomy death chugs and clutters of “Ex Isis Mortis”. With the album playing out with the nearing eleven minutes of “Mother Of Luminous Blood” which moves between mid-pace smash ‘n’ slug, speeding grimness, and simmering doom-outs with grimly mumble vocals.

Throughout Oneiric Visions Shambles aren’t really doing anything overly ground break or fresh, but they know how to pen evenly tooled and eventful tracks that are high in blacked tarry and hope battering vibes. All making for a rewarding enough trip into blacked death doom nihilism.