1: Aoratos - Gods Without Name

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on 2019-12-17T19:07:00Z

Gods Without Name

Despite the hype that started swirling when this release was announced late last year, and knowing who was behind it I wasn’t fully prepared for how good this was going to be. Naas Alcameth takes the best parts of his various other projects and produces an album which blew everything else clear out of the water. It is, obviously, very reminiscent of Akhlys, but pushes the envelope slightly in intensity. After a shorter ambient intro the album truly begins with Holy Mother of Terror (hard to find a more apt title), it then continues through Of Harvest, Scythe and Sickle Moon, Gods Without Name, Thresher, and finally The Watcher On The Threshold. For this the bulk of the album it never lets up, the songs blend into each other making it very easy to think you’ve just sat through a single song. My only complaint about this setup is that the album ends up slightly lopsided with the last 13 minutes of the album being quite ambient as you have both Prayer of Abjection and outro Parallax II bookending the last real song, the slightly doomy Dread Spirit Of The Place. A very minor complaint for the undisputed album of the year.

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