"In a world of decadence, beauty becomes something almost illicit. Out of this dying ground no trees can bear fruit, no seed might germinate in Earth’s warm bosom; the gods have left us, this much we do know. Whatever purity takes refuge within our souls must hitherto take a form alien to the works of man, something terrible, obscene even. What we truly achieve in this world now aspires to negate its origins, to oppose them, to blaspheme against them. TOME OF THE UNREPLENISHED and STARLESS DOMAIN here face each other in this silent, unforgiving purity. Foam and welter how they might, in their desperate attempt to communicate, whatever escapes them is a mockery of existence, a direct nexus betwixt the soul and the deep longing within all that is to return to a time before time. Disjointed layers of noise collide upon each other, screams of anguish and despair reaching most deeply, a hint of melody languishing in resistance. The gates have opened, and emaciated mouth herald the final Divine promise. No longer will the eye not see the lie which protects us from what the mind cannot understand. Rejoice! For now, finally, man shall learn to lament, he shall learn tragedy, he shall know Fate. Nothing can save us, nothing will." ~Tome of the Unreplenished
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Terrifying and beautiful. In the cosmic distance stellar lights twinkle, bright beacons in the endless darkness. But one by one they dim and disappear, victims of the bottomless hunger of the void. All that is good, all that is evil, will end. Here at the event horizon of unexistence hope and despair become equally meaningless. Pummeled endlessly into irrelevance reality collapses in upon itself, forever. Dave Aftandilian
A foreboding black-doom metal dirge, meditating on a dark world caked in ash, resulting from all the Earth’s nuclear arsenal detonating at once. Bandcamp Album of the Day Jun 14, 2018
If “atmospheric black metal” implies majestic comedowns and dramatic dynamics, this powerhouse instead constitutes anti-atmospheric black metal. Bandcamp Album of the Day Mar 23, 2021