Upon the shore,
I saw you
as water between the stones
flowing outward
to the ash-dimmed sky,
the hot coals of stars
balanced, reflecting
from your movements
dance in the ebb and flow.
A steady step,
a cloven hoof,
a black cloak
flows around you.
Twisting like the undertow
clinging to a body's mass
that has lost the battle
upon the timeless stones
of the shore, tides retreat
to reveal dead remains
borne upon the freezing sand,
floating in the ocean mist.
Twisting like the undertow
upon the timeless stones
Flowing outward
to the ash-dimmed sky
balanced, reflecting
in your movements
upon the shore
a slow, wading gradient,
the rust of a blade recovered,
stepping towards a weightless state
where light itself is no-more.
Space metal or metal is space? How about both! Atmospheric black metal at its core but with an excellent addition of synthesizer effects and keyboards to give a cosmic melody that is present throughout the album. Some shorter songs on this album compared to previous that make it a bit more approachable. 7/10 RJ
I've come back to this album to give it it's well-deserved due.
The interpositions are coherent and cold, it's all put together really nicely which adds to the effectiveness of it's depressing atmosphere, and to it's faculty-decimating power.
Throughout the album it often reminds me of the great Bathory, which is always a good thing.
What will you see? Daniel Brown
36 choice cuts - one from each 2015 LP, plus music from new signings on the mighty and 25-years-strong Relapse label. Bandcamp New & Notable Nov 4, 2015