Khost – GovernanceLabel: Cold Spring – CSR237CDFormat: CD, AlbumCountry: UKReleased: 05 Jun 2017Style: Doom Metal, Industrial “Governance” continues KHOST‘s immersion in themes of detachment and dissonance, and ruminates upon the exertion of wills that are not your own, and upon the ways to detect and trace the outlines of the presence(s) that may exert these daily wills upon you, day by day. It was written over the course of the 2016/17 Winter, during times of unease and sickness for the band, including one near-death experience. The resulting album is a hinterland of low resolution transmissions interspersed with broad concrete columns of distortion that loom suddenly from the dim landscape. Governance…
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Pylar – La Gran Obra
Pylar – La Gran ObraLabel: Sunneurosis RecordsFormat: CD, Album Limited to 250 copiesCountry: SpainReleased: 2016Style: Experimental, Avantgarde, Doom Metal After the successful second album, PYLAR collective returns with a new release: La Gran Obra. This CD is limited to 250 copies (a number that touches upon the threshold of madness) and is inspired by Alchemy.In the same way as the alchemical process, La Gran Obra is divided into three parts: Nigredo, Albedo and Rubedo. Throughout this piece, the enigmatic heresiarchs manage to manipulate the lost language of colour and the complex esoteric symbolism of ancient science, dropping clues to the follower and allowing them to walk down the path of…
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Common Eider, King Eider – Extinction
Common Eider, King Eider – ExtinctionLabel: Cold Spring – CSR219CDFormat: CD, AlbumCountry: UKReleased: 11 Apr 2016Style: Drone, Dark Ambient, Doom Metal A new ritual from this long running doom/drone/ambient collective, offering up modern manifestations of ancient energies, channelled into smouldering swathes of ceremonial hypnosis and explosive gouts of blood-red radiance. Extinction is an extended ceremonial rite conducted below ground at the Wisp House (R.I.P.). A song suite of psychedelic devotionals assembled from reverb drenched industrial drones, billowing clouds of metallic throb, and churning, rhythmic bombast. Fields of ghostly incantations suspended in the ether, draped over metallic murmurs and moaning melancholia. The low end rumble of monk-like chants beneath the soft…
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Of Darkness – Tribute to Krzysztof Penderecki – Passio et mors Domini nostri Jesu Christi secundum Lucam
Of Darkness – Tribute to Krzysztof Penderecki – Passio et mors Domini nostri Jesu Christi secundum LucamLabel: The Lament Congregation – The Lament CongregationFormat: Cassette, AlbumCountry: SpainReleased: 01 Jan 2015Style: Funeral Death Music Sold Out The new work Of Darkness continues its constant search process, this time making visible the negation of art through the combination of various forms of musical expression. Using this as a contrast between the magnificent Gospel according to Luke by Krzysztof Penderecki and the canonical forms of musical language, this new work explores the fundamental mystery of the death and resurrection of Jesus and subverts the aesthetic and expressive values of the tradition. Moreover, the…
