Released on: 5th February 2021
Maestitium is the brainchild of guitarist and vocalist Elias Westrin and Tale of the Endless is the debut. And so the story goes, while taking a class in music production the school project involved producing an ensemble piece of which Westrin chose to create a melo-death EP. A tale as old as time with songs as old as rhyme: melody and blast beats.
We have got three tracks and an intro neatly running under twenty-five minutes. The intro track is really a part one to companion the second track Morning Star. It is an unnecessary cut and a slow start but, thanks to the wonders of technology and playlists when flipping its position with Morning Star works really well with the fade-out of the latter track and bridges the third track Song of the Freezing Wind nicely.
It might be a personal thing but fade-outs imply something getting further away and, unless it is on an incoherent pop album, has no place on a second track unless called for by the narrative. It is characteristically the distant gaze of thinking about your next move. Those ideas can be attributed to artistic style however, so make of it what you will.
The remainder of the EP, while technically adroit, is derivative of the same melancholy that it begins with. The feeling never changes and if not for the mix in vocal styles would be more at home in a DSBM outfit. With that in mind, there is no sense of progress and for a concept that describes itself as a tale, and an endless one at that, there is no resolution to speak of. Maybe it will come in the album or follow-up EP.
6/10
