Grey Aura has been working for a decade, using black metal to construct stories that reach beyond the limits of a concept album. They describe themselves on Bandcamp as a “Gesamtkunstwerk Club.” Since their first full-length, Waerachtighe beschryvinghe van drie saylagien, ter werelt nooyt zo vreemt ghehoort, they have singularly pursued a modernist narrative of madness (more on that later). The band incubated the concept on two demos in 2017 and 2019, and very recently it reached its apotheosis: Zwart vierkant (“black square”). Perhaps somewhat ironically, Zwart vierkant isn’t actually that angular. The jazz palette the band deploys, the psychological … Continue reading Review & Interview: Grey Aura – Zwart vierkant