Umbra Nihil - The Borderland Rituals (CD)

The Borderland Rituals, UMBRA NIHIL's second full length release, seems like a musical mongrel mostly drawing influences from slow doom flavoured metal, 70's prog rock, ZEUHL, VOIVOD and maggot-infested heavy metal in general. In order to achieve a suitable claustrophobic sound and eerie, forbidding atmosphere the album has been recorded in an isolated and quarantined abandoned house on the inbred borderland, sullenly crafting the band's sound into a more organic and gelatinous direction, thus leaving behind the somewhat sterile sound of Gnoia.