Over 18 minutes of soul-tearing black metal, a true herald of Rienaus' madness and devastation as captured live into audio form.
This tape EP consist of three tracks, one of which was included on their "Aamutähdelle" debut album, one from an older demo & one completely new track.
Finnish Epic Doom Metal loaded with a sense of traditional heavy riffing and progressive rock elements delved out from the inspirational foundation of 60's / 70's proge.
"The Eye" ascends the listener unto cosmic planes, painting the vision with dark mythological undertones.
"‘Atmâsphere’ is the third song of the apocalyptic odyssey that is Verschränkung. It is a thunderous roar of spirit-substance sucked into the vacuum of collapsing space. It is the scarred and burned marks of the mad divinity on us. It is a morbid eulogy muttered through countless dead lips and mouths.”
Set within the reverie of a devil-worshipper, it is a cracked looking glass, mirroring a multitude of renderings of the same visceral fantasy: the end of the world.
It is a silent prayer for fiery, dissolutive rain.
It is a drunken siren song beckoning the world to the bosom of DEATH.
Seeping with satanic hubris, yet laced with a subtle despair over the doubt that the End might not, after all, be the the aesthete's glorious Omega affair...
But perhaps a creeping, sickly thing, labouring under the yoke of cyclic necessity. That eschatons might come and go.
Freezing cold and raw black metal exploring thematics surrounding the human futility; a rise to battle against the currents and finally transcending the question of being's existential crisis.
After years of purification and reinvention, 'Purgatorial Awakening' symbolises the destruction of runic order as it is understood as stagnant construction; while the old world is burned away, a new one rises from the ashes. And so has Pantheon of Blood gone through similar process in order to discover the aural identity: at times remembering its musical roots from Finnish Black Metal and other times expanding the variation of sound into fresh regions with measurements that are inspired by the old works of Hellenic Black Metal.
Freezing cold and raw black metal exploring thematics surrounding the human futility; a rise to battle against the currents and finally transcending the question of being's existential crisis.
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Out now: PANTHEON OF BLOOD (FI)"Purgatorial Awakening" CS
After years of purification and reinvention, 'Purgatorial Awakening' symbolises the destruction of runic order as it is understood as stagnant construction; while the old world is burned away, a new one rises from the ashes. And so has Pantheon of Blood gone through similar process in order to discover the aural identity: at times remembering its musical roots from Finnish Black Metal and other times expanding the variation of sound into fresh regions with measurements that are inspired by the old works of Hellenic Black Metal.
Upcoming live cassette on Feuer Publications: BLOOD RED FOG (FI) - "Rural Abyss" CS. Circa 45 minutes of raw energy captured from an event that was held amidst the woods of Virrat.
