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Amber Asylum – Sin Eater<\/strong>
Label: Prophecy Productions\u2013 PRO 138
Format: CD, Album
Country: Germany
Released: 04 Dec 2015
Style: Neo-Classical, Post Rock, Ethereal<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Amber Asylum are unique<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Amber Asylum\u2026 a filmic fusion of modern classical and post-rock\u2026 where arias and Art Songs meet in a pale field of electronic disturbance. Equally at home in the opera house or the smoky, raucous din of an underground nightclub, Amber Asylum plumbs the crevasse between noise and beauty. Lyrical, confessional, dark yet aspirant, their strings, vocals, and spare percussion billow like furious mists across your consciousness. Dark as it is beautiful, spare as it is complex, its supernaturally decadent powers will overtake you in the remote reaches of your imagination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On \u201cSin Eater\u201d, Amber Asylum\u2019s first studio effort in six years, the four ladies from San Francisco combine the ominous energy of their drum- and bass-heavy albums \u201cGarden Of Love\u201d (2005) and \u201cStill Point\u201d (2007) with the lushest string arrangements in the band\u2019s history. The subject matter of then album is the cleansing ritual of \u201csin eating\u201d. Kris Force explains: \u201cIt still exists as a death ritual where the Sin Eater consumes a meal or \u2018corpse cake\u2019 that is passed over the body of the deceased or laid on the chest. The meal represents the sins of the deceased and once consumed by the Sin Eater the sins are released thereby allowing the soul to rest in peace. The album speaks of this process of taking on the pain of others to set them free.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSin Eater\u201d does not only mark Amber Asylum\u2019s debut for Prophecy Productions, but also the band\u2019s 20th anniversary. In two decades, Kris Force and her fellow musicians released seven albums, several singles and EPs, not to forget their countless sampler contributions and collaborations with acts such as Neurosis, Swans or Sol Invictus. In order to celebrate the group\u2019s 20th anniversary, a limited box set entitled \u201cAnthology\u201d is released at the same time as \u201cSin Eater\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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