Khost – Governance Label: Cold Spring – CSR237CD Format: CD, Album Country: UK Released: 05 Jun 2017 Style: 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 is like driving at night with your spirituality asleep at the wheel.
With demoralizing vocal terror, hypnotic nightmarescapes, frost-encrusted tones, and horrifying rhythms, KHOST’s Governance devastates the listener with nearly fifty minutes of entrancing yet hazardous tectonic doom-laced revulsion. Features guest appearances from Eugene Robinson (OXBOW), and Jo Quail, and includes a remix of the track ‘Coven’ by Tel Aviv artist Adrian Stainburner.
Pylar – La Gran Obra Label: Sunneurosis Records Format: CD, Album Limited to 250 copies Country: Spain Released: 2016 Style: 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 the ineffable. The second side, Speculum (ArboNargAl), is a perfect mirror image of the first. In a sense, an infinite loop has been created between the two sides with the purpose of bending time and entering a level of existence where our subconscious memories live.
PYLAR has once more presented us with a veil which we can choose to lift in search of the key to uncover the last of their holy mission.
Pylar – Pyedra Label: Alone Records – AR-085LP Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Limited Edition, Yellow Country: Spain Released: Nov 2, 2016 Style: Doom Metal, Experimental
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PYLAR are back with PYEDRA, featuring four tracks dedicated to the stone as a cosmic symbol of megalithic cultures. Those civilisations used big stones (megaliths) to raise their temples, tombs and paths.
PYLAR evoke the power of stone through monolithic guitars and techtonic drums. The stone as a testament to the timelessness, laden with nuances and expressed in the form of strings and numinous winds increasing the intensity beyond logic and sanity. Chants speaking of menhirs, metheors and monoliths opening the gate to a time when space and death were one, symbolized by the power and strength of megaliths, where ancient gods shall dwell in eternal gravity and stillness.
The album was recorded at La Mina Studio by The Alchemist Master, under the telluric darkness of the first full moon after solstice when the sun is defeated on the sixteenth year of the third millennium of the common era. Produced by PYLAR and mastered at Kadifornia Mastering by Mario G. Alberni.
PYLAR están de vuelta con PYEDRA, su nuevo álbum donde incluyen 4 extensos temas dedicados a la piedra como símbolo cósmico de las culturas megalíticas. Estos pueblos empleaban grandes piedras (“megalitos”) para erigir sus templos, tumbas y senderos.
PYLAR evocan el poder de la piedra a través de guitarras monolíticas y baterías tectónicas. La piedra como gran símbolo de lo intemporal lleno de matices expresados con cuerdas y vientos numinosos que aumentan la épica hasta niveles demenciales mientras los cánticos que hablan de menhires, meteoros y monolitos abren un umbral a aquella época donde el espacio y la muerte eran uno, simbolizados en la fortaleza y poder de los megalitos, allí donde habitan los antiguos dioses, con su quietud y gravedad eternas.
PYLAR se alimentan de las vibraciones de las grandes piedras que percibimos en las atávicas profundidades del dolmen y nos cuentan historias en lenguajes arcanos y olvidados cantadas para que recordemos que la única manera de enfrentarnos al terror cósmico es trascender la muerte a través de la piedra negra sagrada: la Diosa Madre, el centro del mundo, el pilar de la existencia.
