This is a band I really like. And maybe JADE is not the kind of band that floods your senses on first contact if you’re not ready. They require your senses. Your mind to be connected. It happened to me when I first got into their music and mysticism. After that, I was completely hooked. With JADE, one moment you’re just listening, the next, you’re somewhere else in the vast universe. Here, with “Mysteries Of A Flowery Dream”, this Catalonian trio continues their slow, deliberate journey into the shadowy corners of atmospheric Death Metal combined with some other regions of this realm. And no mistake here: this album dwells in that space between the real and the unreal, drawing strength from both. But before I met their music, the first time I ever heard about JADE was from an interview that Andrés Castro and Jesús Claros, from Colombia, conducted with “Fiar” in June 2023 on the “Factor Metal” YouTube channel. That was insane! It was a very deep interview where “Fiar” philosophically explained the meaning of the word “jade” and its significance within the context of the band, its philosophy, and its music, all within mysticism and symbolism connotations. And that’s exactly what you feel when you listen to JADE’s music, kind of a ritual around a mysterious stone that is rolling around the depths of the cosmos. JADE sounds unique and expresses something unique. This is what JADE is all about, an uncanny, majestic stone that opens a portal to something ancient and wordless. I found a very remarkable thing here, how fluid the whole thing feels like. JADE seems to fall into the slow burns, to sit with the unease, to let the layers reveal themselves over time. Five years on from their debut and JADE sounds more profound than ever. “Mysteries Of A Flowery Dream” is definitely proof that heaviness, mystery and darkness always come from meaning. More info here: www.facebook.com/jadestonemask, www.facebook.com/pulverisedrecords