Release Date June 26th, 2026
Format Cassette
Genre Death/Doom Metal
Origin Finland
Citrinitas is a Finnish extreme metal project operating behind very little public information. Its first public appearance came earlier in 2026 with “Unending Descent”, a thirteen-minute demo issued through Caligari Records. That debut introduced a warped mixture of death metal, doom metal, and outsider black metal, built from degraded audio, distant voices, and riffs suspended between collapse and ritual motion. “Telestic Ekstasis” arrives only months later as the project’s second demo, once again released by Caligari Records.
No lineup, personal history, or detailed background accompanies the music. There is no personality campaign attached to Citrinitas, no mythology explained in advance, and no attempt to guide the listener toward a neat interpretation. Across two brief demos, the project has created a sealed musical space where primitive audio, abstract composition, and cosmic decay meet. That secrecy could become empty decoration in lesser hands. Here, it mainly removes distractions and leaves the sound exposed.
“Telestic Ekstasis” contains three tracks across sixteen minutes. The production places nearly everything inside a cloud of garage reverb. Guitars smear into low frequencies, drums pulse beneath the surface, and the vocals appear as distant cries trapped behind the mix. The audio is rough, cavernous, and intentionally blurred. Death metal provides the physical base, doom stretches the movement, and black metal supplies
the spectral edge. The riffs are simple in shape, then extended until their outlines begin to dissolve. Hooks emerge through recurring guitar figures and steady rhythmic cycles, not through choruses or sudden melodic turns. The pacing remains patient, allowing each section to circle its central idea for long stretches. Small shifts in rhythm and guitar phrasing matter because the music rarely uses dramatic transitions.
The drums maintain a steady route through the haze, while the guitars move between low crawling phrases and higher, ghostlike lines. Vocals function less as a source of language and more as another damaged layer inside the mix. At lower volume, the guitar layers flatten into a single mass. At higher volume, the rhythmic pulse becomes easier to follow, and faint melodic shapes appear around the edges. This is controlled corrosion, with every sound partially eaten by reverb and distortion. The three songs share one continuous atmosphere, almost as though they are fragments taken from a much longer composition.
Citrinitas depends almost entirely on atmosphere, pacing, and the persistence of a few central motifs. When those parts lock together, “Telestic Ekstasis” becomes hypnotic, eerie, and genuinely strange. When they loosen, the music drifts into sameness and the long phrases begin to blur without adding much tension. The short duration prevents that weakness from becoming severe, though another release built from the same method would need more contrast. As a second demo, this is a meaningful step beyond raw obscurity.
The writing is more focused, the hooks are easier to grasp, and the alien quality has grown deeper, moving past mere confusion. It remains a partial view of Citrinitas, not a fully developed work. “Telestic Ekstasis” is compelling underground metal with a distinct atmosphere, several gripping passages, and enough unresolved ideas to make the next move important. More contrast would raise the ceiling. For now, this demo earns attention through its hooks and diseased atmosphere.
|7.0
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