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Italian Post-Black Metal. An entire EP about the trouble & strife (Cockney rhyming slang anyone?) or the witch as she is called here. Very inventive music! Thanks VitV! Fascinating & highly recommended!
Witch as a cultist of Nature, its protector, healer.
Witch as a cultist of evil, esotericism aimed at destruction, demon.
Witch as a female figure: independent, wise, fertile.
What unites them is life and its cycle, and as such linked to Nature.
As only women are able to generate it, to then look after it and protect it with wisdom and strength.
Since she is linked to Nature, she can evoke forces and spirits bonded to realities that are inaccessible to us, being the holder of mystical and healing knowledge and secrets, in full control of the life cycle knowledge of Nature itself and living creatures.
As a mare, she has ability to bend and destroy people's will and life, in full control of the esoteric arts related to Paganism / Satanism, gait and features manifest to man as demonic.
An entity composed of the triad that creates life, bends and destroys it and which will regenerate its ashes to give them new life.
Hence the hymn to the need for change, to the need to return to the origins, to abandon the groundlessness, senselessness and incorrectness of modern thought, an unsustainable thought that can only lead to destruction, annihilation. Violence calls for violence.
The only way is through the evocation of an entity, something that is not properly of this world but that contains in itself the main characteristics suitable for purification through destruction but also capable of restoring life through it, reshaping a more sustainable world, linked to naturalist traditions and foundations, to reconnect man to his true essence, to his true origins, to his spiritual self.
Not a simple path or without sacrifices, but ultimately necessary.
A cycle in three acts:
Evocation:
the entity is called and it manifests itself
Purification:
the plague spreads quickly and everything reaps
Creation:
the primordial slime that will bring to life is made up of the spilled blood; Nature taking back its space against humanity's cancer.
And the circle is restored.
Power to women, to spiritual freedom and to Nature, which have always been frowned upon, misunderstood and demonized by the ignorance of the centuries of "evolution", mystified, tortured, raped and repressed.
They must be glorified, listened to and protected as the only key to life itself, as the only ones capable of generating it, as the only ones capable of creating a balance of growth and a true future for the world.
credits
released October 14, 2022
Recorded by Michael Anthony Foti at Belvanera Audio Productions
Mix & Master by Michael Anthony Foti at Belvanera Audio Productions
Artwork by Ikosidio
Merci Déhà for the download code. Lots of bands use these ingredients – pretty female vocals over doomy guitars always sounds good, but usually that's where the ideas run out. That isn't the case here. Each song is packed with ideas and evolutions, genres and references it's boring to list but not at all to listen to. A pleasure to have been introduced to this. Luke
Have only listened to the first three tracks so far. Somehow the indie/grunge/funereal/doom elements meld together well. Well worth a listen! 😁
Update - couldn't stop listening. No weak tracks. Music that won't stand still, but holds up well throughout. My favourite non-electronic release for some time. Thanks so much for the code! 😎 Rinchen Choesang
Crushing blackened sludge/doom with gorgeous female clean vocals that (at times) remind me just a bit of Heike Langhans. Excellent late evening metalhead mood music. Highly recommended!
Edit — On further listen, I swear I’m hearing a doom metal version of Minuit Machine. Just listen to some of those lolling, world-weary melodies and tell me I’m wrong! MJ
A pop-punk compilation benefitting the beloved Club 85 venue in Hertfordshire, UK, featuring contributions from 32 bands. Bandcamp New & Notable Jul 8, 2020
Doom metal in tone and lyrics steeped in a dark, haunting world. Wicked cover art to magnify this sweet, sweet blackened treat. Abigorum grows stronger by the day.
Satanath once again offers another obsidian gem! The Mad Barron