Averaging an album per year since their 2018 formation, the latest expression from revered Swiss Atmospheric Black Metal band AARA shows no drop in quality, nor let-up in their perpetually questing sense of purpose. „Eiger“ is inspired by a tragedy on the majestic 3967-meter peak in the Bernese Alps, and masterfully captures the band’s hallmark fusion of raw intensity and ethereal beauty.
The album is now officially released – listen to the eight epic tracks below via Bandcamp, on DMP’s YouTube channel and via all streaming platforms: Aara – Eiger (Full album)
An organic and spacious production – courtesy of Markus Stock (EMPYRIUM, ALCEST) – allows the trademark elegiac, spirited leads and reverberant acoustic guitars of main-composer Berg to give increased emotional weight to a performance of on-the-edge savagery from vocalist/lyricist Fluss.
Fluss comments on the creation of the new album: „We usually begin with a foundational idea, a rough direction, before the music takes shape. This initial inspiration guides Berg as he composes the individual pieces; sometimes, he already has a clear vision of which piece should capture a specific moment in a story. More often than not, though, I have creative freedom when writing the lyrics to shape the dramaturgy of a narrative across the different pieces. This was also the case with „Eiger“. It all started with an idea: Heinrich Harrer’s book The White Spider and an exploration of the early attempts to conquer the Eiger. Then came the music, followed by the lyrics, which in turn could reflect and adapt to the rhythm of the compositions.“
