The two masterminds behind this new coming project (Davide del Cole and Ascanio Borgia) are recognizable sound artists for those in touch with the understated dark music underground and its various scenes issued from the industrial then subterranean ambient cradles. Here they join forces to offer us a Dante-esque and apocalyptic thrilling noisy manifest. The conceptual background is deeply connected to primordial resonances, mythological resurgences and occult beliefs from engulfed or forgotten heathen religions.
Indeed what catches the ears is the groundbreaking and burgeoning ceremonial and ritual components of the music often immersing the listener in deep, quiet then unsettling or uncanny moods. Reverbered sound motifs meet white noise derelicts, long sustained cavernous drone vibes, and multi layered e-chords of meandering textures with discreet evanescent melodic lines. Fans of death industrialism and ritual ambient might find here a serious interest with pronounced mystical ends.
Recommended for those into the sanctified ascend-spiritual darkness of Skullfower, Necro Death Mort, Endvra, and Common Eider, King Eider. This opus is welcomed by the excellent Zazen Sounds, a key publisher regarding soundscapes in touch with the monolithic heaviness of extreme music genres as well as the darkly meditative inclination of sonic sound ritualism. Next to names such as Nordvargr or Shibalba, from their catalog l would quite recommended the dreary cinematic I Fjellets Hastighet by Sysselmann and the processed chamber acoustic music of The Machair That Covers The Saints.
(Philippe Blache)
