Of Darkness - Death
June 17 2010 at 07:29:54 AM
Double D's.
From some more promising epoch than their unfortunate Swedish-style Death Metal group
Graveyard, Messers Julkarn and Bastard, the duo behind Spain’s most “primitive, repetitive, hypnotic” and looks like I could add
only Funeral Doom band, see the pressing of their first demo
Death on vinyl. As with virtually all bands of niche quality, paradigm eliminates most personality and so Of Darkness isn’t likely to be noticed outside of those (the release by Beijing’s Psychedelic Lotus Records surely coming as a pleasant surprise) who've already anticipated them in the first place. Their loss. A lot of bands never earn enough or are passionate enough to justify what they do as being much more than a hobby, but Of Darkness is wholly transparent. And better for it, so long as you appreciate the standard. Canned but not bland, sides “Darkness” and “Death” cast a wide shadow through which roars eternity. Granular analogue sound creeping never closer over and over as huge sound blocks dissolve into phantasmal sweeps and other alien noise sold as tentative ease rather than unrest, felt palpably during the second half’s trimmed iteration of a rise-then-fall riff first heard on "Seasons in the Abyss." And so one comes to cruelly depend on it in the face of horrible silence, it’s sudden absence more frightening than any voice from the depths.
[Todd DePalma]
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