Bunsenburner – Reverie

 

 

Bunsenburner – Reverie
Self-released – 2025
Rock, Metal, Stoner, Sludge, Doom, Jazz
Rated: ***

There are these dream sequences that remind you of long lost romantic moments and those will stay with you for the rest of time. And on this album there are a few instances that seem to waltz with those memories. Before they are brutally burned to a cinder by the experimental genre-defying metal that Bunsenburner delivers. The Freiburg Im Breisgau, Germany five-piece recorded their new album Reverie live during a manic four-day session at Huji Maja Studios in Freiburg Im Breisgau. Captivated by their earlier release Rituals we dove head first into their new vision, soon experiencing momentary flashes of pearly hallucinations and then having them turn into metallic nightmares. The Reverie gets shaken around violently and black metal signature seem to want to scorch whatever lingering feelings of euphoria might be there. Often coming across like a jam-band Avant La Lettre, the thirteen tracks carry many a riff and a multitude of landscapes. Landscapes that seem ridden with earthquakes and aftershocks but always returning to a momentary oasis of peace and tranquility. And therein lies the power of Bunsenburner, to heat things right up to the moment of boiling, to seek out the right amount of tremor and quake before tooling it all down to a pilot light, to a mesmerizing flame to stare into until you get lost in it…

(Written by JK)

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