Ebonylake - In Swathes of Brooding Light (CD)

Ebonylake - In Swathes of Brooding Light (CD)

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Technical avant-garde black metal. Latest album.

Includes their first demo, As Ghosts We Dance in Thrashing Seas (1998) remastered as bonus tracks.

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Track listing

  1. And from the Seas the Sickening Things
  2. I Painted the Suicide of Neptune
  3. The Curious Cave of Deformities
  4. In Swathes of Brooding Light Skeletal Birds Scratch at Broken Windows
  5. Human Mannequin Puppeteer
  6. Licking at the Nesting's of Young Fledglings
  7. Amethyst Lung Concerto Bonus
  8. Within Deepest Red (The Opening of..) Bonus
  9. The Theory of Sexual Carvings Bonus
  10. A Voice in the Piano Bonus

Review

Musically the basic backbone is furious black metal riffing, reminiscent of early Emperor, with the occasional hat tip to Blessed Are The Sick era Morbid Angel. The guitarist loves to dabble in "what can I do here to increase tension", as well as occasionally, "what is the absolute wrongest possible chord I could play here?" The drumming is often buried deep in the mix, but I do like what I hear on the title track, when he goes "George of the Ebony Jungle", as well as furious kit bashing on "The Curious Caves..." The attack - and it is a hostile invasion of your auditory senses - is furthered by synths and keyboards, which often times sound like someone trying to score an early 80's slasher film on a toy piano. Oh, and there is a bassist as well whom we occasionally hear from. - 4/5