Carma - Ossadas (Full Album 2023)

Buy here: Hailing from Portugal, CARMA made their bolt-from-the-blue debut in 2015 with the self-titled full-length Carma. A unique mixture of #funeral_doom, #black_metal , and #dark_ambient , Carma found the trio almost effortlessly mesmerizing those who dared to step into the deep expanses of their debut album. However, that album was but a foretaste of the mastery to come from CARMA. Some seven-plus years later arrives Ossadas, a bolder and more immersive album. Totaling an epic 68 minutes, CARMA’s second full-length is indeed daunting from the outset, but exponentially rewards those brave enough to enter its hallowed corridors. Such a massive structure is not merely bloat or an unchecked whim: Ossadas is a conceptual album inspired by the Conchada Cemetery, located in Coimbra, Portugal. As such, the title of the record’s nine tracks are the most common words that appear on tombs and tombstones throughout the cemetery. The lyrics, written in Port