Label: Evil Dead Productions – EDP017 Format: CD, Album, Limited Edition Country: Russia Released: 15 Mar 2016 Style: Psychedelic Rock, Stoner Rock
“Umbra” is slow hypnotic instrumental psychedelic rock. Reverberated guitar chords, slides and coarse fuzz, a dispassionate drum machine and psychedelic string percussion, delicate organ pads, the hum of guitar amplifiers and the wheeze of cello – these are the elements creating this tapestry. Pleasantly enough, the author knows how to treat silence as it plays a significant role in his compositions – each note takes its time to fade away, mesmerizing the listener with its vibrations.
Some familiar musical landmarks to be mentioned here are Earth albums “Hibernaculum” and “The Bee Made Honey in the Lion’s Skull” (although Earth is more monotonous and straightforward), and the famous OST for the Jim Jarmush movie “Dead Man” by Neil Young.
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.
PYLAR is made up of several hyerophants, shamans, and druids. It is thought that there are members of the mighty Orthodox and the magnificent Blooming Látigo among them. They mix song, dance and invocations in their perfomances, as if these were ceremonies whith the objective of awakening tellurian forces which have been lying dormant since the Ancient Times.
In their own words: “We worship the Godess of the beginning of time, we are purity and corruption, permanent and eternal becoming, and existence which is Kronos and Aevum one at the same time… We are the vehicle of the transformation of the great metal… Those who have been absent for a long time show themselves through us… We are the Aludel… We are the inner working of the Earth… We are the womb where electrum is icubated.”
