In Time For The Last Rays Of Light

Abrahma's third album In Time for the Last Rays of Light follows three tumultuous years of personal challenges and lineup changes. It is a chronicle of the ravages of coping with loss and mental illness, brought to bear with heavy and progressive songwriting, melodic catharsis and an impact that goes beyond the material itself. Produced and mixed at Orgone Studios by Jaime Gomez Arellano (Paradise Lost, Ghost, etc.), In Time for the Last Rays of Light follows 2015's Reflections in the Bowels of a Bird and whether it is the stark chug and lumbering weight of Eclipse of the Sane Pt. 1: Isolation Ghosts or the furious blast-beating in the prior Lucidly Adrift, its songs produce a depth of atmosphere that speaks to the soul that birthed them. A split with the prior lineup of the band brought the Rouen, France-based founding vocalist/guitarist Sbastien Bismuth into contact with local outfit Splendor Solis, whose members would soon be folded into the new incarnation of Abrahma. After many false starts, the band hit the studio in July 2018 and set to work on what is unmistakably their greatest accomplishment to-date: an album that copes with the depression that birthed it and soars hopefully above while reminding that the darkness beneath is ever-present. Spanning genres and decades of influence, from the Bowie-ism of ...

Last Epistle to the gothic unfolding of closer There Bears the Fruit of Deceit, In Time for the Last Rays of Light speaks with raw honesty and lush craft to its challenges and realizations. In keeping with the album's theme, a portion of the merch proceeds from Abrahma's next tours will go to help those suffering from mental illness. I decided to use this album has a medication against this depression and maybe help other people in this situation, Bismuth recounts. Each song explains a different side of it: loss of confidence, other's critical looks, the impression of not having a place in this world.