The debut album of cosmos-tripping blackened blast from the self-proclaimed Portugese "astral black metal" band Forgotten Winter. We love it when black metal bands bring out the prog synths, and Dial�ctica Transcendental is loaded with spaced-out cosmic synthesizers that drift through the black space that hangs between stars, total Schulze-style galactic whoosh that is backed with dense synth strings and lush cosmic electronic textures. We fucking love it when bands combine kosimiche krautrock ambience with a classic black metal attack, and this disc has been getting a lot of play around here. Dial�ctica Transcendental opens with the eight minute "Imagin�rio Hipnag�gico e Sensa��es Cinest�ticas", which is pure space music, just repeating synth figures and washes of eerie deep space ambience; it's with the second track "Ecoar Da Reminisc�ncia " that the band blasts forth with their cosmic black metal attack, a highly melodic blackened assault that blends terrific piano melodies, symphonic strings and synthesizers way up front in the mix with the shrieking blackened vokills and croaking rasps bathed in delay and echo, furiously blasting drums, and blazing mosquito riffing that is primarily relegated to the background, with the emphasis heavily on the classical sounds. Heavily layered with different orchestral elements like strings, counterpoint piano melodies, and moaning chant-like vocals buried beneath the relentless blast beats, it's easy to draw comparisons between this and the cosmic black metal of bands like Darkspace and Vepulcula, but these guys incorporate symphonic elements that give this much more of a neo-classical feel, with strange dissonant keyboard parts and symphonic arrangements that sound a lot like something from In The Nursery appearing over the strangely murky and buried black metal. A killer disc that we recommend highly to fans of swirling, cosmic black metal blast.