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The Relapse is the debut album by Tatius Wolff, a solo alternative metal project by Stephan ‘’Wolff’’ Borg.

Founded in 2017, this Sydney musician decided to create something to express his talents and use time wisely. The Relapse is a concept album, and only a visionary can make such a reality. In April, the lead single False Hope was released with an accompanying lyric video and in May, the second single The Tormentor was released (with a video).

The relapse opens with the crunching Auxilium, a progressive piece which works well as an opener; this song would suit those hardcore Djent fans with it’s pulsating riffs and whom those want to head-bang. The shock is the 2nd track and it starts off calm only to get you with a heavy hook. The scaling mellow lead riff is air guitar worthy. This song is 7 minutes, it’s an epic. Recovery is the 3rd song, and has a cool drum intro, it’s a doom song, with Thrash riffs and majestic melodies. The 4th track is False Hope, a fine tuned cruising track that makes sense why it was chosen as the 1st single, you can feel the heart pulse here. The title track is at number 5, it’s an interesting track, a fair hard rock/industrial. This one will cleanse and please your mind. Proelium, the 6th track, seems like it’ll be a ballad, but that changes into a ripping onslaught of progressive power. Trauma hits you in 7th place, what comes to mind is being in a stadium, but it calms down, so, there’s some unexpected goodness here. So far, the songs have really surprised, they can be constant metal or switch to a strong easy going track. There’s personality here, the changes, codas, interludes are well placed and like shifting gear, you get the best of all elements. The Relapse is an exercise of music itself, it’s fusion put to it’s breaking point. It continues with The Tormentor at number 8. Well, with a gospel start with harmonic justice a choir voice and is this that ballad of the senses? NO, it kicks it up to an extreme level, the level of pain Tatius Wolf went through to give us this album. Art inspired by life, no imitations or limits. The Tormentor sneaks up on you and attacks. Number 9, the last song is Despair, and it’s fairly grounded, heavy and light but all makes a fine outing.

Now, there’s a lot, a tonne to say about each song, so, giving a statement of the highlights and a small description so not to spoil the journey is fair. Tatius Wolff is loyal to the music, himself and having of gone through so much to give you a major accomplishment, is worth the effort. You’ll be taken through each step and breath of this cycle, and come out stronger by the inspirational feat Tatius Wolf lived to give new life. The Relapse lifts you up, knocks down with energy and is an awesome listen.

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