Pulchra Morte Deliver An Opus of a Single

A new single from Pulchra Morte delivers a massive opus of soundscape that certainly boasts some emotional backbone and gives off a vast and cinematic undertone along with righteous metal that brings out a grueling edginess, and it's all done with this personality that you end up getting attached to.

"When Hearts Become the Wave" is a very intense track, but that intensity comes in waves. There are plenty of calms before the storms, and the guitar work across this song is unbelievable.

It's the guitars that bring out that emotion the most. They wail and cry out at times, breeding that beautiful but dark emotion, and you can't help but connect with that on a certain level.

The song does feature plenty of acoustic guitar work, and these spacious and ambient underbellies lurk beneath the song the entire time. Those elements show face most when the song is exhaled down to its calmer moments.

This song bursts into melodic but very heavy sections, and that's when the intensity rises and things hit a climactic point. Even during these parts, you have a heavy-handed emotion that turns from a more silent or sadness into an aggressive feeling, and I love the changes between those two things.

Bringing together all of those elements lets the song come through with a very cinematic feel, and it does grab hold of you and take you along for this musical Journey.

The track is an opus. It's a massive 6 minutes and 40 seconds long, and throughout it all, you get engulfed by the changes, arrangements, intensities, and soundscapes of everything you're hearing.

This is an escape. It tells a story but also pulls you away from wherever you are and whatever you're doing and puts you into that story and that emotion for a chunk of time, which I found incredibly refreshing.

When it breaks into the heavier parts, it brings a death metal vibe with it. There are still a lot of spacious elements to that, but the kick drums are doubled up, the vocals come in with a brutal and fierce approach, the guitars get really heavy, and there are layers of texture and sound coming at you from all angles.

Throughout these sections, you still have brilliant guitars that are doing harmonies and heavy guitars, bringing those expansive chords and progressions to the table.

It all comes together like pieces of a puzzle and has this massive sonic presence to it that you can't turn away from.

I love this because it has all of that emotion behind it. The way it's portrayed is brilliant simply because they were able to bring that out mostly with the music.

Yes, the vocals are a huge part of it and definitely breed the angrier elements of the sentiment behind the track, but the music is what sets this mood throughout the track.

Again, that mood changes and fluctuates, but you can feel all of those changes.

The drumming is awesome throughout this whole thing because the percussion is one of the biggest elements that lets the song breathe.

This is a song that feels alive and breathing in its own right, and the drumming is the attribute that opens up the song to feel that way.

This was a crazy track, and I can't even imagine how they were able to put it together and have it feel so seamless with such a natural forward-moving flow.

By the end of the track, everything is almost at a height in terms of that raw energy, and it's something that you end up feeding off of.

This is a track that speaks volumes for the band simply because they were able to put so much authenticity behind it and let that guide the actual song to become what it was.

It almost does feel like the kind of track you can hear in the scene of a film to an extent.

I adore that about this song, and between all the players involved, there's incredible musicianship going on.

Again, there are layers and depth to this track that breed both sullenness and some aggression, but it's all built off of that emotion, and it's incredible how they were able to spin that into a track with such magnitude and impact.

This is not a track you want to miss, no matter who you are, but if you love good, progressive, cinematic, and deepening metal, then this is 100% for you.

Prepare to get engulfed in this track and see how it affects you because I'm sure it will.

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