Description
It must be said asap: AzVs, the mastermind behind DAUGHTERS OF SOPHIA, choose to end his life by suicide on October 16th 2024. Flowing Downward, the label, received the entire album a few months before his death and was given the freedom to release it upon its completion. It is thus in memory of a gentle but tormented soul that we release this album.
Titled “(4.0°) Tsalmaweth”, this is the fourth album of the French Atmospheric Post-Black Metal project DAUGHTERS OF SOPHIA. Following the formula of long songs centred around a continuous flux of excellently melodic riffs and solos, fast rhythms, and shaded vocals, this album displays a particular crystalline, epic, yet haunted atmosphere throughout its entire length.
Wave after wave, song after song, this challenging album reveals its curse and its beauty in equal measure. The sound of eerie, sick and morbid vocals intertwines with the melodic quality of the guitar work, sometimes uplifting, sometimes almost sinister, releasing a certain degree of emotive contrast. Demons meet lifeforce.
With lyrics delving into anti-nomianism, left-hand-path philosophies and Japanese literature, this sense that haunts the whole album finds explanation.
For fans of: Lantlôs, An Autumn for Crippled Children, Falaise, Lascar, Blut Aus Nord
1 Introspection
2 Kamigami no Sénmin
3 Bathin and the Knightlord
4 Dualÿsm(e)
5 闇 の中
6 L’Ombre de la Mort
7 In the Dark Tapestry of Existence
8 Unlightenment ~ sans fin…
9 神々の選民
10 バティンと騎士卿
11 死 の影
12 存在の陰鬱な綴れ織りの中で
GENRE: Black Metal
BARCODE: 0301660564223
RELEASE DATE: 16/01/2026
