Ardormort - The Desolation Letters [Metal / DS]
Sept 8, 2020 22:28:01 GMT -5
Post by pacificthrenodies on Sept 8, 2020 22:28:01 GMT -5
PT-25: Ardormort - The Desolation Letters
We are proud to unleash Ardormort's latest offering, “The Desolation Letters,” unto the world. This is a work of enormity and passion, an expression of extreme eclecticism that nearly defies description.
Already known for their masterful dungeon synth work as Shrouded Gate, the artist behind Ardormort here expands to much broader horizons - with sounds reminiscent of the awe-inspiring classics of funeral and death-doom, black metal, and coldwave cohered by strong neo-medieval synthesizer composition overlaid throughout. From the melancholic oboe and clarinet duet that opens “A Study of Death” before erupting to a thrumming blackened climax, the disorientingly heavy metal grooves of “Fool’s Prayer,” the disharmonic death-dance of “Back The Blade,” through the depressive melodicism of “Tom Riker” at the album’s close, Ardormort’s unique synthesis remains startlingly cohesive from start to finish.
These are masterfully engaging pieces that impart a complicated range of emotion; from languor and alienation to imperious battle-music, from harsh death metal aggression to gloomy doom atmospheres. “The Desolation Letters” is a lyrical work that manages to navigate the many pitfalls inherent to its more progressive style, leading us down its many shadowy pathways in awe of what we may find around the next corner.
Recommended for listeners of Thergothon, Green Carnation, Empyrium, ColdWorld, Summoning, and dungeon synth music in general.
We are offering a limited edition of 26 black-on-gold pro-cassettes in standard cases, with color printed j-card.
24 additional copies are offered as part of an extremely special-edition pinewood box set; treated, stamped, stained, finished, and numbered by the artist's hand. Each musical piece from the album is represented by its own poetic "desolation letter," for a total of 8 individual letters in each box; each weathered, tea-stained, and inoculated with flame by the artist. In addition to these letters, each box contains the album on cassette in standard packaging and band logo button.
To be shipped 9/29/20.
pacificthrenodies.bandcamp.com/album/the-desolation-letters
We are proud to unleash Ardormort's latest offering, “The Desolation Letters,” unto the world. This is a work of enormity and passion, an expression of extreme eclecticism that nearly defies description.
Already known for their masterful dungeon synth work as Shrouded Gate, the artist behind Ardormort here expands to much broader horizons - with sounds reminiscent of the awe-inspiring classics of funeral and death-doom, black metal, and coldwave cohered by strong neo-medieval synthesizer composition overlaid throughout. From the melancholic oboe and clarinet duet that opens “A Study of Death” before erupting to a thrumming blackened climax, the disorientingly heavy metal grooves of “Fool’s Prayer,” the disharmonic death-dance of “Back The Blade,” through the depressive melodicism of “Tom Riker” at the album’s close, Ardormort’s unique synthesis remains startlingly cohesive from start to finish.
These are masterfully engaging pieces that impart a complicated range of emotion; from languor and alienation to imperious battle-music, from harsh death metal aggression to gloomy doom atmospheres. “The Desolation Letters” is a lyrical work that manages to navigate the many pitfalls inherent to its more progressive style, leading us down its many shadowy pathways in awe of what we may find around the next corner.
Recommended for listeners of Thergothon, Green Carnation, Empyrium, ColdWorld, Summoning, and dungeon synth music in general.
We are offering a limited edition of 26 black-on-gold pro-cassettes in standard cases, with color printed j-card.
24 additional copies are offered as part of an extremely special-edition pinewood box set; treated, stamped, stained, finished, and numbered by the artist's hand. Each musical piece from the album is represented by its own poetic "desolation letter," for a total of 8 individual letters in each box; each weathered, tea-stained, and inoculated with flame by the artist. In addition to these letters, each box contains the album on cassette in standard packaging and band logo button.
To be shipped 9/29/20.
pacificthrenodies.bandcamp.com/album/the-desolation-letters