Blindead 23 - Deuterium
If I were putting together a list of the ten best Polish metal releases of this millennium, "Affliction XXIX II MXMVI" would be one of the first titles I would reach for. Blindead's third full-length is probably the greatest thing that ever happened to Polish post-metal. It was also the record that began my own history with the band. Only later did I work my way back to their first two releases, and then waited, with high expectations, for "Absence" and "Ascension". I love both of those records, although there is no denying that by then, Blindead had already become something slightly different. Later, of course, I was also skeptical about "Niewiosna", but over time I came around to it as well. For a long while, then, I kept waiting for a successor that would not necessarily recreate the old formula, but would at least remind us why so many listeners fell in love with Blindead in its most suffocating, monumental, post-metal form. Instead, in 2022, the group announced that it was coming to an end.