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A solitary structure in the woods, an escape from the collapsing outer world, where everything decays, familiar bonds loosen, and people drift apart and return changed. The hut becomes a memorial itself — an obelisk in the forest, a burial site for former lives, a place one returns to alone to contemplate what remains.\u003cbr\u003eInside, memory becomes both refuge and weight. What was meant to be forgotten stays. What was meant to last dissolves. Grief softens into stillness. Unlike Sacrifice, Memorial offers a different kind of rebirth. Rebirth here is indistinct — a quieter transformation found in letting go rather than becoming. Only in its final moments does movement return: a fragile renewal, like thawed water finding its way to a river.\u003cbr\u003eMemorial is dedicated to more than one loss. It holds space for the dead, for love that has outlived itself, for time that cannot be returned, for friends forced to flee, and for selves left behind. Its meaning remains open, shifting with each return — a structure in the forest, unchanged, waiting.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSide A:\u003cbr\u003e01. Ageless River X\u003cbr\u003e02. After I’m Gone\u003cbr\u003eSide B:\u003cbr\u003e03. When The Ashes Grow Cold\u003cbr\u003e04. Ageless River XI\u003cbr\u003eSide C:\u003cbr\u003e05. Memorial\u003cbr\u003e06. Ageless River XII\u003cbr\u003eSide D:\u003cbr\u003e07. The River Wakes\u003cbr\u003e08. 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Frozen Blooom is the natural follow-up to self-titled Olhava (2019) and Ladoga (2020), and integrates some dronescapes the band experimented on Never Leave Me Alone (2020), the drone version of their debut.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMulti-instrumentalist Andrey Novozhilov and drummer Timur Yusupov describe their new journey with words of thoughtful contemplation: “When winter is just starting to fade and give some space to the first steps of spring… When life starts to reappear and the very early flowers peek through the thawing soil, a sudden drop of the temperature can leave them petrified and frozen back again, punished by the “Queen of Fields”.\u003cbr\u003eThis statuesque dead beauty, being infinitely alive and dead at the same time is the main metaphor of this album. Frozen Bloom is about unfulfilled dreams. About how we sacrifice everything today for some abstract “tomorrow”, which may never come. But tomorrow and yesterday don’t exist – only this very moment of static contemplation is real”.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrozen Bloom is Olhava’s fourth opus in three years, and here the duo took some different routes compositionally. Two of the four tracks are traditionally storm-like blackgaze passages, while the other two are leaning towards a more meditative drone experience. The album also features A. Lunn, who kindly agreed to record an electric guitar solo as well as acoustic parts and choral parts on “Frozen Bloom I”.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrozen Bloom was recorded at Olhava home studios, as well as at the local rehearsal space. 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Who neglected a precious, parental, and primordial bond with nature; who unconsciously destroys the one and only home we all share, along with himself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe irreversible damage we do to our environment will see mankind “beheaded”, whilst nature and life itself will thrive eternally. We’d like to believe though that if we realised the value of that bond and embraced it, we’d be given a glimpse of hope in this fatalistic madness - a chance to be spared. The cover art by MarGoat of an exhausted Mother Nature ritualistically destroying and cleansing herself of humanity using human hands as her very own tools forces us to reflect on our significance. She is about to be Reborn in a new floral form”.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTracklist\u003cbr\u003e1. Mirror\u003cbr\u003e2. Reflection\u003cbr\u003e3. Reborn I\u003cbr\u003e4. 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