IN 2021, AUTEUR extraordinaire Denis Villeneuve transformed Dune into a cinematic juggernaut: an instant classic of immaculate effects, world-building and set-pieces. That year’s second-best adaptation of Frank Herbert’s space-drugs bible was by the Scottish post-metal collective Dvne. Their second album, Etemen Ænka, siphoned the desert-strewn, acid-soaked grandeur of the book into a dynamic triumph. And now, by the Kwisatz Haderach, they’ve excelled themselves again.
With Dvne have doubled down on their idiosyncrasies and intricacies, making it nearly as dense as the mythology in Herbert’s near-600- page epic. Even if you’re an acolyte of its follow-up could easily overwhelm at first. The five-piece offer the listener even less space to breathe than they did previously, tightening up their arrhythmic sludge metal bludgeonings while splattering their more meditative passages with
