Yellow Eyes – Confusion Gate

Yellow Eyes present their seventh full-length album, Confusion Gate, blood relative of 2023’s Master’s Murmur.In their 15th year, Yellow Eyes push their distinctive style of Black Metal a step further. Prominently displayed is their signature capacity for contrast: colorful, unpredictable melody with violent power, dissonance with anthemic beauty, harshness with warmth, impulsivity with patience. But this album, the band’s longest yet, is full of secrets. Confusion Gate, though a singular release that stands entirely on it’s own, toys with the listener by quoting abstractly from it’s sister album Master’s Murmur, transfiguring cryptic industrial folk into howling Black Metal. Unexpectedly veering into a rephrased melody or lyric, or presenting a familiar idea upside down, Confusion Gate hides it’s deceptions in plain sight.Compositional and textural experiments abound. A new emphasis on folkloric simplicity and visceral sadness, as well as ethereal or