Rope Sect - Estrangement LP

Since their humble debut in 2017 with the Personae Ingratae EP, Germany's ROPE SECT have quietly built a formidable canon of work ever since, punctuated by their massively hailed The Great Flood debut album in 2020 and further enhanced by the stop-gap mini-album Proskynesis in 2022. While an undoubtedly unique entry for IRON BONEHEAD, ROPE SECT's eerily minimalist deathrock speaks to the darkness in everyone, whether they're full-on metal or far from that. Simply, power and poignancy come in many forms, and ROPE SECT have secured theirs with an idiosyncratic sound that continues to find new listeners across a wide spectrum of experience. Following from the more electronic textures found on Proskynesis, ROPE SECT return to refine their sound further with Estrangement. A full-length work comprising eight songs in 43 minutes, Estrangement is suitably structured for maximum immersion: twilit in every respect, each song stretches out to generous lengths, revealing a staggering sense of spac