Pale - "Our Hearts In Your Heaven" (CD)

*The release date is January 10, 2025.

Pale's album is finally completed.

The members from the EP and the split album have all changed except for Watanabe, the guitarist, so it even sounds like a different band, but as stated in the release information, the noise parts are more in the foreground, which is certainly a first impression, and that may be a point of disagreement among black metal listeners. I personally think it is a post-black explosion part.

Personally, I feel that there are parts that remind me more of METALLICA's “Orion” than the post-black explosion parts, and that the album has a line from the context of the NWOBHM taste that METALLICA refers to, and that Pale's sound, which had been separate and independent, has finally become a part of the history of heavy metal. I think this is the most wonderful thing about this album.

I feel that this album clearly shows that Pale has established itself on a different axis from the Japaneseness of tomorrow's epic landscape, which used to be aligned as a post-black album.

Of course, as long as it is a “post” attempt, it may not stick to all black metal listeners. But that's okay.

Tracklist:
1. Euphoria
2. Coral
3. The Amulet of Freesia
4. Almost Transparent Blue
5. Dakhme
6. Lamento
7. Shringavera