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Based in London, UK, SEA MOSQUITO attracted a lot of attention with their previous work “Igitur” (2023), where they blended a unique mix of mystical black metal and psychedelia. Their new album “Majestas” promises to reach even higher peaks and the cosmic atmosphere that envelops it is almost concrete, tangible. SEA MOSQUITO’s music is sharp, the melodies nocturnal and soaked in echo – at times melancholic and reflective, reminiscent of the most epic Norwegian black metal yet distorted as if through a cosmic lens.
“Majestas is a six track exploration of the religious life of man, focusing on profound and powerful, overwhelming spiritual experiences from cultures and traditions across the world,” explains the band. The title of the album is inspired by a quotation found in “The Sacred and the Profane” by Mircea Eliade, whose writings are the basis of two tracks in particular: “Ascension,” a sobering critique of post-modern man and his conflicted and hypocritical relationship with religious life, and the album’s closing track “To Look Upon Your Own Skeleton,” which SEA MOSQUITO describes as “a spiritual experience in the context of community, the weight of responsibility upon the mystic, and the harrowing experience of man facing his own mortality.”
The rest of “Majestas” is not any less intriguing, inspired as it is among other things by the obscure and much debated Japanese Buddhist practice of self-mummification known as Sokushinbutsu and by the doctrine of tribulation and spiritual power through self-discipline.
SEA MOSQUITO’s “Majestas” is a mystic journey undertaken in an attempt to find the human in the divine and vice versa through spiritual practices and religious experiences that, while different from one another, are united by the human need to find answers to the great mystery of existence.
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