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.
Aoratos
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