NORTT - Gudsforladt CD

Do you fear a lonely death? This is the music of your nightmares. That desolate black mire you’re slowly sinking into in the relentless lashing rain with nothing but the shrieks of ghouls all around you, becoming muffled and then finally fading with your last breath... That cold coffin you’re trapped inside, enclosed in darkness and silence, lonely and isolated beyond that which one’s imagination can fathom… This is the process of experiencing and embracing that which looms ever closer for all of us, with each passing day.

Waves of discordant distortion pulsate a shroud of mist upon proceedings, locking you inside the music, and everything else out. Lurid, bleak piano notes are subtle and entrancing, floating along an agonisingly slow beat. Always so slow. Every note hangs… before fading. Faint, drawn-out growls are not that of a human. Church organs hypnotise and stretch out the distortion further. Silence is used – of course it is, nothing is lonelier than silence.

This is the product of throwing Burzum’s Filosofem, Blut Aus Nord’s latest offering and the funeral doom genre into a swamp. (Sacraphobic, Metal Archives)

Digipack CD

Avantgarde 2020