🎶 Ennui
🌎 Tbilisi
📀 Qroba
® Meuse Music Records
📅 27/02/2026
ENNUI is a band from Georgia that, since its formation in 2012, has faithfully served a very unique and challenging metal genre, Funeral or Depressive Doom Metal. It is a genre that has only one, but powerful way of “speaking” to the listener… through their heart and soul. It is very difficult to achieve, of course, but ENNUI, with their fifth full-length album, “Qroba” (meaning “vanishment”), manage to do so almost perfectly.
“Qroba” consists of five long compositions, all over 10 minutes long. As they themselves say, the album refers to the process of accepting the inevitable through melancholy and contemplation. Musically, ENNUI uses Georgian poetry in combination with Funeral and Doom Metal melodies. A heavy atmosphere dominates throughout the album, stripped of any trace of joy or optimism. Slow melodies, heavy and rhythmic drums, and guitars full of despair. All of this is harmoniously connected with David Unsaved’s death vocals, which seem to come from the bowels of the earth.
The five songs on the album sound like one and indivisible story that speaks directly to the listener’s soul. This is not an album you would listen to on the street, on the bus, or while doing some other task. It is not an album that can exist as background noise. It is an album that demands the listener’s undivided attention and is sure to awaken feelings of sorrow, despair, and mourning, which can, however, be cathartic. If I had to pick out some highlights, it would definitely be the use of the pantouri, a traditional music instrument, in “Decima,” which gives it a more soothing folk tone, or some nice guitar parts like in “Down to the Stars.”
“Qroba” is a mystical psychoanalytic process and not just a simple album. It is not easy, it is not for everyone, and it certainly requires the listener’s absolute dedication. This is difficult nowadays with the fast food mentality with which we consume the infinite amount of music information that is so easily accessible but I would dare you try is with “Qroba”.
★ 8,5/10
✍🏻 Kostas Boudoukos
