HARAKIRI FOR THE SKY (Austria) - III: Trauma (sealed Digipak CD) (2016) Released by Art Of Propaganda in a 6-panel Digipak unfolds into the shape of an upside down cross. 
 Art Of Propaganda Records is proud to present the highly anticipated 3rd full-length studio album of HARAKIRI FOR THE SKY, III: Trauma. Released in 2014, HARAKIRI FOR THE SKY's Aokigahara reaped widespread critical acclaim for its startling synthesis of skyscraping Post-Rock textures and emotive Black Metal fury. 
Breathtaking and torturous in equal measures, the highwater mark that Aokigahara set has somehow been eclipsed by III: Trauma. 
Immediately, the album kicks off with an 11-minute epic titled "Calling The Rain," and indeed do HARAKIRI FOR THE SKY summon forces both natural and supernatural. As the record winds through seven more equally scintillating epics, III: Trauma swells and swirls, crests and crushes, effortlessly dancing between genres with nary an ounce of self-consciousness. 
Not for nothing is the album titled Trauma: the emotional landscapes the band travail scrape both the direst depths and fleetingly blissful extremes of the human psyche.  --  Art Of Propaganda – none