Noisy.
This utterly consumed and crippled my mind at it's loudest moments, and still had moments of bliss and beauty shining through at it's more gentle. This sounds like a black hole opening in front of you and being forced to watch it consume and eviscerate everything you've ever known in incomprehensively brutal ways, knowing that it may soon, and inevitably will swallow you too.
This album sort of feels alive, like it's communicating ideas of a past you were never apart of to you; for reasons that you can't help but find ambiguous, eerie, and almost threatening, which you fail to fully understand. Almost like the devil's golden disc.
But for the little amount of electronic music I've heard, this might be my favourite album of the genre I've heard yet, which is definitely aided by it's great pacing and diversity in sound throughout the ... read more
Track 4-7 had me in a trance.
Some of the most ethereal and mystifying music I've heard.
Some of, in my opinion, their strongest works (e.g. Spells., Snowbringer Cult, Nieve Sacra, & They do not come knocking there anymore) are on here, With the album as a whole being surprisingly consistent for how spread out and lengthy (well, not really for NSB standards) this project is.
Disc 2 in particular is an absolute masterpiece
This feels like whatever any kind of heaven or purgatory (at least) would sound like immediately following the journey we went on in this release's sister album ('Slayer of the King of Hell').
It's much more droney (and less noisy) than 'SotKoH', which I found to be a bit lacking of this album's sound to begin with, but the impenetrable and transcendent atmosphere presented through the first track quickly convinced me that this wasn't to be overlooked. ... read more
A lot better than I thought it'd be, a really nice mix of their noisy drone and free folk sound they would go on to perfect not long after this release.
The soundscapes of the album are surprisingly rich in spite of the albums recording quality, almost putting you in the place of someone cast down into a medieval-informed underworld, and this is aided a lot by the artwork selected for this release.
Side A and the first track of side B of this cassette are two epic and multi-phased ... read more