Memento Mori is Tierra Krieg’s meditation on mortality—an album that stares into the skull and still finds light. Across progressive funeral/death-metal frameworks, serrated guitars collide with violin, cello, piano, flute, and brass to create a chiaroscuro of grief and grace. Ritual threads bind the record: “Scattering the Ashes,” “Purifying the Bones,” “Final Death,” and “Count the Living” turn loss into action—cleansing, releasing, and recommitting to what still breathes.

A recurring memento motif (“Remember: dust made luminous…”) returns in different guises, reminding us that time is limited and therefore meaningful. Instead of tallying the dead, the songs ask what remains—names, deeds, echoes—and how remembrance becomes a second life. The result is heavy and human: an elegy that hammers, then opens like a hymn, inviting listeners to live with intention, hold the sacredness of endings, and see the Beauty in death.