Description
The grand master of black ambience returns with this new missive from beyond the chthonic depths—extended descents into jet-black drift funereal chamber music monstrous metallic noise booming ritualistic percussion slit-throat recitations of formless horror and further abyssal abominations. Fragments From the Aethyr presents a triptych of long sprawling pieces that descend through dark layers of cinematic sonic horror. Violin-led passages of pitch-black dissonant chamber music are backed by booming kettledrums traces of modern music composition and the rotting exhalations of the dead blasts of crushing shapeless doom thunder in the deep sending tremors of doom-laden drone-metal rumbling through the strata of Funerary Call’s demonic industrial nightmares. The sound of Fragments sometimes resembles a Bela Bartok piece drifting through a fog of black-mass ambience and the murmurings of the long dead the sound imbued with a deep ominous feel but also glowing with a mysterious and dark beauty as it builds to a crescendo of black majestic power as on the nearly twenty-minute centerpiece “Fragments.â€
