AVERSIO HUMANITATIS Behold the Silent Dwellers CD

The 2020 album Behold the Silent Dwellers by the Spanish band Aversio Humanitatis, released as a professional 4 panel CD digipak via the prestigious French label Debemur Morti Productions, is a landmark release in modern Dissonant and Post-Black Metal. Hailing from Madrid, the band transitioned from their earlier traditional black metal roots into a more complex, industrial, and urban soundscape that explores dystopian cityscapes and the cold architecture of human-made systems. Produced, mixed, and mastered by the band's own guitarist S. at The Empty Hall studio, the record boasts a dense and powerful production that balances raw aggression with a pulsating, abyssal atmosphere. The album consists of six tracks that function as a cohesive 36-minute descent into a metaphorical urban void, with titles such as The Weaver of Tendons, The Sculptor of Thoughts, and The Scribe of Dust suggesting anthropomorphic entities governing a repressive society. Musically, the work is characterized by swirling dissonance, shifting rhythms, and a sense of monumental scale, drawing frequent comparisons to genre leaders such as Mgła and Deathspell Omega. The digipak edition is a high-quality physical product featuring a black polycarbonate disc and visual aesthetics inspired by Brutalist architecture, which perfectly mirrors the cold, crushing weight of the music and reinforces Aversio Humanitatis' position as one of the most innovative forces in contemporary Spanish extreme metal.