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Не часто встретишь среди мнообразного потока CD-новинок альбом из серии “коллаборация”, что означает “сотрудничество”, но сегодня перед нами диск как раз из такой серии. Алексей Королёв, известный по своему эмбиентному проекту Satanath и околодумовому блэк-проекту Abigorum, объединил свои усилия с американцем по имени Коди Майлет (Cody Maillet) и его one-man проектом Cryostasium, в результате чего увидел свет стильный диджипак под названием “Unholy Ghost Liturgy”, изданный при поддержке лейблов Satanath Records и Abstruce Eerie Radiance.
Что такое литургия, я полагаю, в той или иной степени сейчас уже знают все поклонники тяжёлой музыки, а вот что такое литургия, которую служит нечистый дух, нам с вами только предстоит узнать из прослушивания этого почти 70-минутного альбома, содержащего в общей сложности двадцать треков, включая финальное интро. На обложке мы видим некую инфернальную субстанцию в виде зловещего человекоподобного существа, которая выползает из черноты на тёмно-красный, почти коричневый фон с необычными древесно-космическими разводами.
Открывает альбом на первый взгляд вполне традиционный депрессивный блэк-рокот с использованием то ли симфонического, то ли нойзового бэкграунда. Но уже спустя пару минут ощутимо веет авангардом, который разнообразно и поступательно разворачивается на фоне среднетемпового блэкового чёса. Второй трек встречает нас экспериментальным звуком гитар, всё теми же авангардно-траурными партиями, напоминающими духовые, и отчаянным, как будто смазанным скримом, который по большей части выполняет роль ещё одного муз.инструмента.
Музыка действительно весьма похожа на нечто ритуальное – какое-то страшное и нечеловеческое богослужение, в котором служат не Богу, а кому-то прямо и кардинально Ему противоположному и противоборствующему. Уже добравшись до третьего трека, я ощутил глубокое восхищение альбомом и едкую иронию по отношению к польскому проекту Batushka, который также совсем недавно замахнулся на исполнение своеобразной чёрной литургии. Мастермайнды Abigorum и Cryostasium убедительно показывают, что литургия это не просто набор богохульств.
Это именно служение. Серьёзное, продуманное и сконцентрированное служение. И этот литургический стержень всегда должен присутствовать, даже если литургия выполнена в жанре психоделического блэк-металла и посвящена нечистому духу. Страшные завывания, скрипы и почти хаотический шквал блэк-метал-холокоста ни в коем случае не мешают и не умаляют основную идею альбома, которая очевидно и ярко прослушивается от трека к треку как целенаправленный ритуал во славу тьмы и сил хаоса и распада.
К сожалению, информация о концепции этого анонсировавшегося аж с 2014 года альбома как на самом диджипаке, так и на сайтах лейблов минимальна. Единственное, что там удалось найти – это слова о том, что звуковое выражение неизведанного и пугающего космического хаоса, которое представлено на релизе, вполне возможно является отражением реально существующего мира. Осторожное “вполне возможно” напрочь теряет силу, едва мы добираемся до шестого трека, где адские колокола нестройно и зловеще поют славу предвечной черноте.
Попытка создать нечто подобное тому, что представили нам Алексей Королёв и Коди Майлет на своём совместном релизе “Unholy Ghost Liturgy”, по сути действительно не является чем-то революционно новым. Подобные эксперименты на самом деле имели место в истории тяжёлой музыки. Но новаторство этой колаборации состоит в том, что музыканты сотворили нечто далеко уходящее как от блэка, так и вообще от музыки, и выполнили это на основе традиционного, можно даже сказать примитивного тру-блэка, хотя их творение отнюдь не вышло примитивным!
Эпизодически простираясь не только на психоделик и эмбиент-территории, Abigorum и Cryostasium касаются таких направлений, как tribal metal, avant-garde metal, industrial metal, dark metal, experimental metal, drone и noise. Их совместный проект звучит как ядерная смесь Second To Sun, Pan.Thy.Monium, Burzum, Morgul, Eths, Arcturus, Diabolical Masquerade, Spi-Ritual и Satanath. Уже девятый трек с его мрачными потусторонними завываниями намекает на пик и апофеоз альбома, но это всего лишь середина, и развитие музыкальных идей идёт полным ходом.
Изощрённые басовые соло сменяются странными позвякиваниями и перестукиваниями, а традиционные блэковые риффы вполне гармонично соседствуют с чуть ли не джазовыми проигрышами (“Essential Death”), в то время как пронзительные вопли и экстремальные взрыкивания ненавязчиво дополняют индустриально-эмбиентные провалы (“Realization Of Regress”). В преддверии завершающего пластинку интро мы слышим невероятную кавер-версию – “None” (CME cover), на которой творцы этого кромешного ритуала постарались ни на шутку.
Материал, представленный на “Unholy Ghost Liturgy” на первый, поверхностный взгляд имеет весьма много общего с творениями в стиле депрессивного блэка, и поэтому вполне может быть интересен и привлекателен для адептов dsbm-идеологии. На самом деле, едва только вы чуть глубже проникнете в ритуальный водоворот этого релиза, то без труда заметите, что сама сущность творчества данного тандема имеет совершенно иные корни, и эти корни тянутся не к творческому наследию Баха, Стравинского, Евронимуса, Куортона и графа по имени Гришнак.
http://astartaview.ru/abigorum-cryostasium-unholy-ghost-liturgy/
Muitos pensam que fazer Black Metal é fácil musicalmente:Pegar os instrumentos básicos e só fazer um barulho incessante e com letras abarrotadas de blasfêmia e pronto certo ?! ERRADO ! Não só requer muito trabalho e criatividade como também requer sincronia. Por isso trago para vocês um excelente disco colaboração entre duas excelentes hordas que provam o quanto foi penoso fazer tamanha obra de arte. De um lado vêm o Cryostasium, oriunda dos EUA e de outro o Abigorum, da longínqua Rússia e, nessa massacrante combinação, fizeram um magnífico trabalho de Black Metal Atmosférico pra ninguém botar defeito.
Apesar de ser um disco bastante extenso, contando com vinte faixas no total, trata-se de um trabalho mais focado na brutalidade "brisante" como encontrado por exemplo nos trabalhos do Vesania e em alguns do Old Man's Child. Obviamente eles seguem uma premissa própria, mas nota-se também uma forte influência vinda desde um Winterfylleth até um Limbonic Art. Só escutando mesmo para sentir a sua carregadíssima essência.
Disco recomendado para os admiradores dessas bandas citadas. Com certeza irão escutar no "repeat" inúmeras vezes. Recomendadíssimo !
Откуда взялась здесь эта чудная вещь, ведь раньше её не было. Едва не упустил. А ведь это даже не ambient, а скорее, настоящая дьявольская психоделия, болезненная и инфернальная. Сентенции мрака, саундтрек к книгам Артура Мэйчена, с замечательной обложкой к тому же. Расписывать нет смысла - такое воспринимается индивидуально и в немалой мере зависит от слушателя, его способности чувствовать потустороннюю дикость. Высший балл от меня!
http://dark-world.ru/albums/Abigorum-Cryostasium-Unholy-Ghost-Liturgy.php
Hay personas quienes gustan de la soledad, la melancolía y la atmosfera lúgubre, otras sienten dolor, quieren expresarlo, sentir que alguien conoce su furia interna y poder entender que es lo que los demás sienten por igual. Muchas bandas pueden expresar estos dos sentimientos juntos, pero hay otras que simplemente manejan uno de esos sentimientos a la perfección, pero ¿Y si busco ambos? Pues este disco de colaboración los tiene. La banda americana de Black Industrial Metal Cryostasium y la banda Rusa de Ambient/Black Doom Abigorum se unen para traernos “Unholy Ghost Liturgy” un disco que expresa la oscuridad curiosamente de maneras tanto similares como un tanto diferentes. Un disco que le encantara a los amantes del Black por como abarca todo lo que estos fanáticos buscan en un solo disco, y si una banda no se los puede dar, entonces dos lo harán.
Este disco de colaboración nos regala un viaje de sentimientos encontrados, desde la ansiedad inconsciente y nerviosismo, pero al mismo tiempo nos otorga ese sentimiento de poder al escuchar la brutalidad que puede salir del Black Metal en general, muchos de los temas en este disco corresponden al género obscuro en su totalidad, si bien las dos bandas tienen cierta experiencia en dar un toque ambiental su alma es negra como el género mismo y se siente. Desde que escuchamos el primer tema tenemos entendido que el disco no nos dejara descansar y no dejara de lanzar energía negra hacia nuestros oídos, lo que sorprende de esta banda es lo versátil en cuanto a los tiempos del genero mismo, por un lado escucharemos mucho algo similar al Black Metal de la primera ola así como mucho del de antaño en el mismo tema.
Por otro lado tenemos a las partes melódicas del disco, no están situadas ni colocadas de fondo para “endulzar” al Black Metal, estas secciones melódicas/ambientales nos traen por igual muchos sentimientos que nos harán recordar pasajes obscuros y lúgubres de nuestra vida o tal vez de una pesadilla, desde escenas melancólicas hasta puede llegar a tomar la atmosfera completamente para hacernos sentir en una película de terror, la banda es sutil en la combinación del uso de sintetizadores para dar esa sensación de inquietud y con los instrumentos acústicos la inquietud se convierte en tristeza y depresión. Algo que podremos apreciar de estas secciones es como nos recuerdan a algunas bandas de antaño siendo las introducciones de los temas, el preludio o el final, dicho esto dejan que la agresiva oscuridad tenga su propio espacio, totalmente separado del sentimiento de desesperación o inquietud silenciosa.
A pesar de gustarme mucho como estas dos bandas ejecutan el Black Metal, desde manera depresiva, cruda y melancólica, a veces el disco puede llegar a sonar demasiado genérico, algunos de los temas compartirán similitud con otros, pero este suele pasar más con Cryostasium, el disco corre el riesgo de sonar más como otro disco de la banda norteamericana, casi devorando completamente en algunos tiempos a la banda rusa de Doom, pero cuando esto no pasa el disco puede llegar a ser muy llevadero, los tiempos “genéricos” de la banda no son muchos ni muy propagados por todo el disco, pero cuando salen a la luz pueden cansar un poco.
En conclusión Abigorum hace un estupendo trabajo dejando al espectador envuelto en una atmosfera lúgubre gracias al Doom que ejecuta, es poderoso pero se puede apreciar cierta soledad en las melodías que al combinarlas con el Black desmesurado de Cryostasium solo nos da como resultado una combinación deliciosa y cubierta en negrura.
https://reviewstomyblood.blogspot.ru/2016/11/resena-cryostasium-abigorum-unholy.html
2016 has already been a pretty good year for the black metal scene, or pretty much every scene for that matter. The genre has been overloaded with primitive and traditional albums, but also by shoegaze and psychedelic rock inspired black metal releases, giving the whole thing a huge amount of variation. However, I'd like to add an exceptional piece of work to the already massive list of albums that came out this year. This sure is something else...
'Unholy Ghost Liturgy' is not a split. It's a collaboration album between Russian ambient/black/doom metal project Abigorum and American black metal/ambient formation Cryostasium. They composed the songs together, and there are quite a lot of those. The album contains no less than twenty tracks, eventually clocking off about about seventy minutes. Perhaps that might be a bit too long for some people, but not for me, certainly not when they come with up with plenty of variation and some downright strange tunes.
The album opens with something you could and would expect for this collaboration: harsh black metal, enhanced by keyboards and soundscapes, driving on fierce blast beats. Yet, there seems to be an underlying urge to experiment and it wouldn't take long for that urge to take the upperhand. 'Unholy Ghosts', the second track, already drags us into a mysterious and horrifying world. 'Liturgia' adds a lot to the gloomy atmosphere, perhaps because of the keyboards, or the haunted vocals or the slow, lingering tempo. 'Forgotten Lines' is just plain madness.
The album continues in that bizarre, experimental and somewhat confusing manner. I'm not going to write a song-by-song description here, but I will tell you that there's more musical insanity to come, possibly even more than you can handle. These projects keep on grabbing influences from all things experimental, psychedelic and dissonant. The endresult is something out of this world, something that will often leave you in a state of trance. But don't worry, many passage here are well suited for a decent headbanging portion.
For me, the best tracks on this album include the space-rock inspired 'Last Galaxy', the chaotic 'Essential Death' and the sheer insanity of 'Mysore's Cocoon' but I'd suggest you check out the entire album. As I mentioned in the opening paragraph, this sure is something else and it sure is something that just might become one of the most surprising black metal released of the year. So go ahead, indulge yourself in absolute madness with this awesome cooperation.
http://www.merchantsofair.com/reviews/cryostasium-abigorum-unholy-ghost-liturgy
Dimanche matin, sommeil insuffisant, humeur maussade à l’image d’un ciel gris qui refuse de laisser filtrer le soleil…Pas vraiment le genre d’ambiance propice à l’écoute d’un album festif et enlevé, plutôt à se terrer derrière le canapé avec une bonne dose de misanthropie musicale dans les oreilles, pour détester encore plus une matinée qui ressemble aux précédentes et à toutes les autres.
Le destin chafouin faisant parfois très bien les choses, et en faisant le tri des promos reçus du mail même de mes amis Zoheb Mahmud & Hassan Amin de chez Qabar promotion, je tombe sans le savoir sur la bande son idéale d’une entame de journée qui laisse présager le pire, mais aussi le meilleur dans la souffrance retranscrite en musique nihiliste.
Deux projets associés le temps d’un travail commun, deux entités aussi éloignées dans l’espace qu’elles ne sont proches dans la philosophie, pour une heure de trip au fin fond des enfers d’un BM noyé dans un Dark Ambient maladif et profondément sombre.
Deux groupes donc, menés par un leader qui a tout pris en charge et se retrouve donc seul aux commandes. Deux groupes qui symbolisent la lutte Est/Ouest pour la suprématie en termes de créativité musicale morbide et introvertie, et qui depuis leur début de carrière n’ont eu de cesse d’expérimenter les sons pour n’en retirer que leur essence la plus fondamentalement dark.
Dark, c’est le terme, et qui convient parfaitement à ce projet qu’est Unholy Ghost Liturgy, qui résulte d’un effort commun entre ABIGORUM et CRYOSTASIUM.
ABIGORUM, c’est la Russie, Saint-Pétersbourg, et une naissance officielle en avril 2012. Une poignée de sorties, toutes placées sous l’égide d’un Métal Ambient à la lisière du Black, du Doom et de l’Industriel, pour des strates de sons, des ambiances délétères, et une certaine recherche de la provocation musicale en forme d’introspection. ABIGORUM, c’est la créature démoniaque d’Aleksey Korolyov, qui s’occupe de tout, de l’instrumentation à l’interprétation, de la composition à l’enregistrement, et qui ici fait exception à sa propre règle en collaborant de près avec Cody Maillet, l’homme seul portant le masque CRYOSTASIUM. Lui vient de Boston, Massachusetts, et existe en tant qu’artiste solo ou presque depuis la fin des années 90, lorsqu’il s’exprimait sous la bannière THE ABHORRER. Une pléiade de sorties plus tard (son Bandcamp en est rempli, et la plupart des EP et splits sont gratuits, ou vendus à un prix dérisoire), CRYOSTASIUM décide donc de dessiner un concept commun avec son homologue Russe, cheminement aboutissant à la sortie de ce terrifiant Unholy Ghost Liturgy, qui justifie son thème à chaque négation de la mélodie qui n’a pas sa place au sein de ce genre de projet…
Ce projet justement visait à unir dans une même osmose deux visions différentes d’une musique affranchie de toute contrainte, à l’image sonore de celle proposée par chaque artiste de son côté. Une musique aussi emprunte de Black Metal, de psychédélisme en vogue dans les 70’s, mais aussi de Dark Ambient typiquement 90’s, le tout lié pour aboutir à un magma sonore presque indéfinissable, utilisant les aspects les plus extrêmes de chaque approche.
En résultent donc une vingtaine de pistes pour presque une heure et dix minutes de musique, qui ne se veulent pas seulement jonction entre les univers des deux artistes en solitaire, mais vrai travail commun pour créer un cauchemar musical à l’image de cette pochette au trait naïf mais inquiétant.
Un monstre tentaculaire, s’extirpant d’un terril noir comme le jais, sans expression, qui avance comme une coulée de lave prête à engloutir l’humanité dans les flammes, ou vos attentes musicales dans un tombeau de flammes expérimentales et abstraites.
Pour autant, ne vous attendez pas à un énième album de BM option Dark Ambient, tout juste bon à tripoter les fréquences graves et autres arrangements grouillants pour créer une ambiance approximative et faussement hypnotique. Les deux artistes ont durement travaillé leur partition pour créer un univers vraiment unique, mélange de sonorités fluctuantes et pesantes, d’incantations vocales vraiment investies, et de juxtaposition de violence larvée et d’agression pure.
En découle un amalgame assez troublant, qui pourrait mériter une appellation unique, et qui ne se contente jamais de ficelles usées et autres tours de passe-passe de magicien musical du…dimanche.
Si la plupart des interventions (et elles sont nombreuses) jouent la carte d’un Dark Ambient synthétique mouvant et uniforme (comme ce tétanisant « Negative Soul », majestueux dans sa progression, et répétitif comme une mort qui revient faucher les âmes), d’autres au contraire plongent leur désespoir dans un BM strident et acide qui fauche toutes les illusions mélodiques passant à sa portée (« Frozen Perspectives », mélange entre les NON, LUSTMORD et le BM lo-fi aux prétentions soudainement devenues symphoniques).
Et si la plupart des segments jouent la concision et la brièveté, le duo s’autorise parfois quelques bavardages plus développés, comme les sept minutes de « Essential Death », qui se traînent le long d’une intro à la basse maladroite planant au-dessus d’un easy lounge se perdant brutalement dans les dédales d’un BM hurlé à la ABRUPTUM. Petit à petit, les couleurs deviennent plus fades, puis meurent sous l’assaut d’un Black linéaire et redondant, qui abuse d’une guitare au grincement constant et d’une rythmique monotone qui régularise des BPM presque résignés et tout sauf violents.
Quelques interludes incongrus (« Monsoon Dreams », genre de Post BM lo-fi abrasif ), d’autres assourdissants et sans pitié (« Mysore’s Cocoon », difficile d’accès et abominable pour les oreilles, à l’image de ce monstre graphique s’arrêtant pour un dîner de chair), quelques déviances monophoniques psychédéliques (« Realization of Regress »), une ou deux coulées de lave sous mixées qui rappellent le BM Canadien le moins empathique (« The Quiet Room », belle ironie), une ultime intervention longue durée à filer la chair de poule aux TERRA TENEBROSA tout en se rappelant de la musique minimaliste électronique des eighties (« Bioengineering Collapse »), et le périple s’achève dans une dernière outro dominée d’un piano lugubre écrémant les mêmes notes sans dévier de sa route…
Belle collaboration que ce Unholy Ghost Liturgy qui a bénéficié d’un vrai travail en commun et non de la simple association de noms et d’univers. Si l’album garde l’empreinte de ses deux concepteurs en filigrane, il n’en est pas pour autant créature de Frankenstein, assemblée à la hâte et de façon disparate, mais bien une nouvelle entité fantasmagorique qui marche sur des jambes BM, saisit des instants de violence de ses bras malhabiles Dark Ambient, et s’exprime de cordes vocales balbutiant un psychédélisme froid et distant. Pas forcément de quoi passer un dimanche en famille chaleureux, mais de quoi anticiper un certain avenir de l’extrême avec inquiétude et crainte.
Une jonction Est/Ouest qui voit son centre de gravité flotter au-dessus de la Transylvanie, pour une heure de conte d’horreur pas forcément dénué d’humanité. Mais pas d’humanisme.
http://www.metalnews.fr/chroniques/unholy-ghost-liturgy
Да, я сразу заподозрил что-то неладное, так угрюмо лыбился монстр с обложки шестипанельного диджипака. Мало того, так этот альбом оказался НЕ сплитом, как могло показаться каждому просвещенному слушателю. Читайте, сверху написано collaboration, что означает сотрудничество. То есть две группы сработали, как одна и получился новый оригинальный материал. В таких случаях по нормалу объявляется свежий проект, ему дается хорошее кровавое название, типа абистазиум, или криогорум, и — нате вам — новый альбом. Но хозяева проектов решили не заводить новой странички на метал-архивах и сделали так, как сделали. В конце этого материала мы поймем, правильное ли решение было принято, или совершенно наоборот.
Абигорум, как мне рассказывал руководитель лейбла Satanath Records, это его проект, см инти http://resurgam.ucoz.ru/publ/intervju_s_upravoj_lejbla_satanat_alekseem_satanath/1-1-0-8 , но это было давно, хотя и правда)), сейчас же проект вырос, и уже кой-что выпускал на темный свет. Это были демка и сингл. Направление движение: медленное, черное, эмбиентальное.
Криостазиум это американский умысел одного мэна по паспорту Cody Maillet, из Массачусетса, у которого нет активно выпускающего лейбла и потому у него поболее времени для муЗЛА. Чтобы вы нормально все поняли, у него есть контора Metropolitan State Productions, которая выпускает его Криостазиум, и только. Ну, там, несколько релизов. Как вы сами разумеете, это совершенно другое чем контора Satanath Records, которая уже выпустила 163 диска, некоторые из которых уже перевыпускались по-новой, и это — не считая релизов саблейбла Symbol Of Domination Prod. Те вообще тотально рубятся на железной ниве, и собирают стальные урожаи… стоп, стоп. Куда-то меня понесло…
Так вот, Криостазиум под своим нынешним названием работает с ноль 2-го года, и заметно преуспел в заполонении белого света черным материалом. У него более тридцати работ разного формата, самых жирных — 6 альбомов, а так, как и полагается андеграундному артисту, ваяет сплиты, демы, синглы и прочее. Я бы отметил, что сплит ноль 7-го года у него был с великим Ксастуром. Но Криостазиум выпускал альбом и на Satanath Records, и мне доводилось его не только подержать в руках, что само по себе ценно, но и послушать реальный диск. Небольшая цитата на три страницы ))) «Прессующим здесь выставлен блаково-эмбиентный чертошибанутый пейзаж. Который достоен прослушивания для адептов темного культа. Начиная со второй половины Cryostasium являет бесчеловечные мелодии, которые вероятно навеяны прогулками по местам, где жизнь совершенно отсутствует»… ну и т. д.
Так что я лично, в принципе, готов. Значит, почнем. А начала мегаформация совсем не эмбиентально — уже через 10 секунд имеем в наличии бодро стругающую структуру, инфернально заполошную — с задним фоном — антропологически насыщенным, как может показаться с первого взгляда. Однако скоро табуретку у наблюдателя убирают, и из колонок льется сварочный, депрессивный и суицидальный блэк метал, черно яркий по текстурам, которые все также заботливо разложены на фоне. Ну, конечно, вокал — истерический суицидал. Ритм-структура похожа на задумку обгашенного звонаря, а гитарный боезапас намеренно и фирменно обработан рашпилем, для совершенно шершавого и резкого звучания.
Однако где-то уже рядом музыканты бросаю тяжелые инструменты наземь и вдруг переходят к прямому эмбиенту, какой хоть и органично вписался сюда, — из-за тех самых упомянутых фонов, но являет собой форменный антипод тому, что звучало ранее.
Замечу, что всего музыканты насочиняли материала на 70 минут, и потому сразу понятно: скучать здесь не придется. И это на самом деле так, вот ведь в чем штука. Потому что, например, далее струится черная компо — вроде тоже депрессивная и параноидальная, но нервически борзая, и с примоченным вокалом и голосовым инструментом, то есть голос издает какие-то звуки, но кажется, они ничего не означают. Похоже на звуки, издаваемые трупами, которых пытаются реанимировать.
Криостазиум с Абигорумом не были бы тем, кем являются, если бы не обратились к космической тематике — компо «Last Galaxy”. И опять у них все получается не по-человечески, — то ли по-дьявольски, то ли не от мира сего. Стартовав с синтетического звука, постепенно и умышленно переходят к прыгающему барабанному ритму, постепенно заворачивающемуся в черную простыню многослойного саунда, невообразимой консистенции — это надо слушать, но сразу могу заявить, что в видении авторов с последней галактикой будет покончено, как и со всеми ранее — с мрачной решительностью и люциферианским намерением. Ибо трак сворачивает в настоящий транс-блак-индастриал. Синтетические вопли межгалактических сирен разрушают всяческую надежду… и это ведь только начало…
В целом альбом слушается, как самая настоящая темная, а точнее блэковая, сага о борьбе зла и добренького, занимательная и дико фэнтезийная, до краев заполненная ПСИХОДЕЛИЧЕСКОЙ белой горячкой. Это означает — никто не знает, что воспоследует за ВОТ ЭТИМ звуком в следующий момент. Адская палитра примененных звуков является тому поручительством.
Творческий потенциал тандема очень высок, и это и есть ответ на тот вопрос, что был поставлен в самом начале.
Высокие оценки.
P. S. Работа выпущена в сотрудничестве с суровой бельгийской конторой Abstruse Eerie Radiance.
THis is a particularly strange release. A split, or rather “collaborative album” as the press release states, between two one-man Black Metal bands, Russia’s Abigorum and the US’s Cryostasium. It’s hard to tell where one band ends and the other starts, other than the vocals that kick in on track 11, “Essential Death” Both bands are very psychedelic while still sticking to their Black Metal roots. There is definitely a sinister feel to the whole record, entrancing and morbid, leaving you feeling a bit violated by the time the whole thing is over. Definitely not your typical bedroom one-man Black Metal stuff. Well,maybe it is, but it doesn’t sound like it was just recorded on a little tape deck with a Radio Shack microphone. While this sounds like it could have all been improvised, it also sounds very intentional. It hits you hard and leaves you wondering what the fuck just happened. Actually, throughout the entire record you’ll be wondering what the fuck is going on. Very high marks for such an original take on Black Metal and for the sheer mysteriousness of it all.
Russia's Abigorum teams up with U.S.A's Cryostasium to create an album that mixes black metal with psychedelic, ambient, experimental and doom metal and this is a review of their 2016 album "Unholy Ghost Liturgy" which was released as a joint effort between Satanath Records and Abstruce Eerie Radiance.
Ambient style synths start off the album giving the recording an atmosphere of a horror movie and also mixes in with the heavier side of the music and when the music speeds up a great amount of blast beats and tremolo picking can be heard which also gives the music more of a raw black metal feeling.
A decent amount of melody can be heard in the guitar riffing and grim yet depressive screams along with psychedelic elements can be heard at times and the songs also bring in a great mixture of slow, mid paced and fast parts and as the album progresses the music gets more experimental while also remaining very dark and heavy.
Some tracks also bring in a small amount of clean guitars and some of the tracks are all instrumental and you can hear a touch of doom metal in the slower sections of the songs along with a few that are also very long and epic in length and all of the musical instruments have a very powerful sound to them and when guitar leads are utilized they stick to more of a melodic style and a great amount of diversity can be heard throughout the recording and there is also a brief use of spoken word parts as the album progresses and they also bring in a cover of CME's "None".
Abigorum and Cryostasium creates a recording that takes the raw, depressive and atmospheric sides of black metal and mixes it with doom, ambient, experimental and psychedelia to create a very original style, the production sounds very raw yet powerful at the same time while the lyrics cover ghosts and paranormal themes.
In my opinion this is another great sounding album from both Abigorum and Cryostasium and if you are a fan of the more experimental and ambient styles of black metal, you should check out this recording. RECOMMENDED TRACKS INCLUDE "Unholy Ghosts" "Last Galaxy" "Essential Death" and "The Quiet Room".
http://occultblackmetalzine.blogspot.ru/2016/09/abigorumcryostasiumunholy-ghost.html
Tip: This is not a split release, in which half is composed by Russia’s Abigorum and the other by USA act Cryostasium — it’s a collaboration. And it’s not a side project in which members of the two acts explore new ideas that wouldn’t fit with their main projects — it’s the collision of their sympathetic vibes. Unholy Ghost Liturgy, like its title, isn’t always neat; in places it seems like existing tracks playing at the same time on different sides of a small, tin-lined room.
http://www.metalsucks.net/2016/09/30/shit-comes-today-september-30-2016/
Out this Thursday, September 29th 2016 is ‘Unholy Ghost Liturgy‘, a split album of Abigorum and Cryostasium via the Satanath Records and Abstruse Eerie Radiance labels.
A psychedelic/ambient blackish metal style, ‘Unholy Ghost Liturgy‘ is a refreshing album featuring some unusual songs yet some yielding new sounds and new concepts of extreme music.
A must for collectors of metal albums, the joint effort of Abigorum and Cryostasium is a sure pleasure to listen is you’re a fan of extreme music and audio art.
I invite you to listen to the Bandcamp streaming widget below and have a listen for yourself. My favorite song is Systematic Apocalypse and I’m sure you’ll love it too.
https://kultur666.com/2016/09/29/unholy-ghost-liturgy-by-abigorum-and-cryostasium-split-a-comment/
Wondering why the band’s name so long?
Well this album “Unholy Ghost Liturgy” is a collaboration album of Russian ambient/black/doom metal project “Abigorum” with American black metal/ambient formation “Cryostasium“.
The long awaited album which was announced way back in 2014 has been released via Satanath Records & Abstruse Eerie Radiance in last week of September this year.
Well collaboration album in most of the cases provide a quality listening experience, since it is the birth child of two bands (generally) which come from different backgrounds bringing something precious and new. In this case “Abigorum” (Russian metal project) & “Cryostasium” (American metal project) are those two bands.
The album contains 20 abyssic tracks with 2 tracks crossing the threshold of 6 minutes. From start , this unholy collaboration makes their intention clear as to what level of nebulous and iniquitous journey the listener will be plunging himself into. Short & Simple is the proverb , but for them it is short & dark (raw). They take the listener by surprise with their out of the box melodies. The vocals are less and are nothing more than ungodly and murky cries. The album is more about instrumentation work which is sacrilegiously magical then vocals. Sometimes all you need is the proper set of instrumentation to create the impact and to take the person into the domain of darkness . This album is just that! Rhythms & Melodies remain same throughout the tracks , but let that not disappoint or fool you . The tracks are bound to take you on whirl of a dark scrimmage. And as said ” Dark side is always attractive”. The tracks are simply scaring life out of people.
The Album is a cauldron where this mighty and sinful fusion of music from different culture takes place. You might not be able to connect to it in the first go, since it is a little off beat . But definitely it will make you hungry for and as they say “it becomes better with repeated number of spins”. There is a ton of impious and powerful music in this album, which one just cannot pass on or ignore.
https://thedeadmanblog.wordpress.com/2016/10/06/abigorum-cryostasium-unholy-ghost-liturgy-review/
Музыка-мантра. Темная мантра-заклинание, нацеленная на окончательный Распад. Музыка бесконечного Упадка. Хочешь знать какое тебе уготовано будущее? Не гадай и не анализируй - взгляни на эти Эпитеты с первого по двадцатый. Вслушайся в них. В них Твое будущее. Великолепное и прекрасное! Будущее канцерогенных канав, яркого зеленого неба и оранжевых облаков. Будущее ядовитых степей и радиоактивных млекопитающих. Эта музыка - дышит ржавой пылью, грибовидным тленом и свежей плесенью. Эта музыка - скопление миллионов чернобылей, пища которых - вселенская Пандемия. Микробы ее музыкальных гамм рождаются в изотопах.
Двадцать радиоактивных нуклидов, собранных Здесь и делающих свою благородную работу, - должны стать одним предвестников Краха, что навсегда поглотит эту гиблую действительность.
По атмосфере музыка выражает и близка к идеям, заложенных атомными иглами Deathmoor и SS-18.
Der neue Keyboarder der russischen Depressive Black Metaller Taiga, von denen ich an dieser Stelle bereits zwei Alben besprochen habe, musiziert seit 2012 mit Abigorum auf Solopfaden und spielt doomigen Black Metal mit Ambient-Einflüssen. Ein Demo und eine digitale Single gab es bisher von diesem Projekt. Hier liegt jedoch nicht sein Debüt vor, sondern eine Collaboration, also Zusammenarbeit mit dem Amerikaner Cody Maillet, der das Projekt Crystasium, welches Black Metal mit Ambient- und Industrial-Einflüssen bietet, seit 2002 in dieser Form ebenfalls im Alleingang betreibt. Es handelt sich also nicht wirklich als eine Split-CD als solches. Man hat nur diesem Zusammenschluss keinen neuen Projektnamen gegeben. Was erwartet uns? Ich kannte beide Bands bisher nicht, würde aber von der Beschreibung her sagen, dass hier deutlich mehr Cryostasium als Abigorum drin ist. Denn hier git es hauptsächlich Black Metal mit sterilem Industrial-Einschlag, der jedoch nicht nur stumpfe Sterilität, sondern auch eisige Kälte mitbringt, die super zu der Musik passt. Bei meist kurzen Songs herrscht finsterer Black Metal, mal schleppend, aber auch häufig mit hohem Tempo, immer fiesem Gesang und einer passenden, dünnen Produktion. Wirklich gut vergleichen lässt sich das hier nicht. Muss es aber auch nicht. Ein bisschen Thorns, Mysticum und Abruptum als ganz vage Anhaltspunkte vielleicht, aber mehr nicht. Die arschkalte Atmosphäre und Düsternis ist aber beeindruckend!
http://www.crossfire-metal.de/15605-0-ABIGORUMCRYOSTASIUM--UNHOLY-GHOST-LITURGY.html
Inedita collaborazione questa tra Abigorum e Cryostasium, due monicker dietro ai quali si nascondono due personaggi, Aleksey Korolyov e Cody Maillet, tanto lontani geograficamente quanto accomunati dalla passione per un certo tipo di black metal ambientale. Mai Russia e Stati Uniti sono stati così vicini come in questo album, partorito con naturalezza da questi due musicisti estremi che si muovono come se suonassero il loro psychedelic/ambient/black/doom metal insieme da una vita, tanto forte è l’intesa che si è venuta a creare.
L’album è composto da 20 tracce, per un totale di quasi 70 minuti di musica, una vera sfida non solo per i non avvezzi al genere ma anche per chi è più abituato a questo tipo di sonorità. Infatti, fatta eccezione per sporadiche urla disperate, gorgogli e spoken words inserite qua e là, l’album è quasi interamente strumentale. È difficile, se non impossibile, fare un’analisi track-by-track: ogni pezzo è collegato al successivo, e funge da tassello di un grande puzzle, tolto il quale l’insieme ne risulterebbe incompleto. Psichedelia, rumori, chitarre motosega, ritmi cadenzati o al fulmicotone, batteria martellante, campionamenti o tastiere inquietanti si alternano apparentemente senza cognizione di causa. Si passa da momenti più ariosi e quasi melodici, a momenti al limite dell’umana concezione, tanta è la violenza con qui alcuni passaggi arrivano al nostro orecchio. C’è anche parecchio groove nelle ritmiche, grazie a loop spietati, nonché frustate più black metal in senso stretto che ottengono l’obbiettivo di annichilire ancora di più l’ascoltatore. Giusto per fare un paragone letterario, sembra di stare dentro ad un racconto di Lovecraft, oppure di partecipare a qualche rituale delle streghe di Salem. Non è semplice descrivere a parole quello che vi aspetta, tanto meno fare paragoni con altre realtà, salvo aspettarvi qualcosa partorito dai vostri peggiori incubi.
Ciò che è una caratteristica saliente di questo lavoro, risulta però il suo maggior limite. Se escludiamo la presenza sporadica di qualche urlo disumano, a lungo andare la mancanza di una traccia vocale potrebbe sentirsi. A mio avviso la presenza di una parte cantata non solo avrebbero giovato al completamento del concept, ma avrebbero trasformato questo “esperimento” in un album completo che sarebbe tranquillamente andato a piazzarsi tra gli ascolti obbligati per gli amanti del genere, in questo 2017 appena iniziato. Purtroppo risulta veramente difficile arrivare incolumi in fondo ai 70 minuti proposti, non tanto per il rischio di annoiarsi, come detto l’album è molto vario, quanto perché l’orecchio tende a perdersi prematuramente nelle molte sfumature qui presenti. Inoltre arrivati alla fine si avvertirà un certo senso di intontimento, forse desiderato dagli stessi autori, e difficilmente verrà voglia di farlo ripartire subito. Se da un lato questa non immediatezza della proposta è un po’ una caratteristica di tutti gli album facenti parte di questo filone, il rischio è appunto una longevità del progetto non proporzionale alla qualità del contenuto.
Infine, una nota di merito alla produzione, azzeccata e a supporto di tutti gli “strumenti”, siano essi tradizionali o meno.
https://www.insane-voices-labirynth.it/qabar-pr/recensioni/abigorum-cryostasium/
Più che due gruppi in collaborazione qui si può parlare di due menti, in quanto ciascuna delle due formazioni coinvolte è costituita da un solo personaggio. Ecco allora che i russi Abigorium incontrano gli americani Cryostasium. Cosa ne è uscito? Intanto il risultato è un album con venti tracce, 18 se escludiamo outro e una cover… tantine per un progetto di questa portata a mio avviso. Il problema però non è inerente alla durata media dei brani, quanto alla loro dispersione. In effetti più che una collaborazione, questo disco doveva essere una sorta di raccolta di b side. Le canzoni sono davvero troppo frammentare, senza regole ne filo comune che le incastoni l’un l’altra. Non mi riferisco alla poliedricità dei loro creatori, peraltro fuor di dubbio, quanto alla mancanza di omogeneità dei pezzi. Perciò non si può dire che questo album sia un’uscita che appartenga ad un genere piuttosto che ad un altro. Vi troverete pezzi black, pezzi ambient, death, post rock… davvero un amalgama poco omogeneo. Ecco quindi che il disco ne risente nell’identità, con il risultato che non ha anima purtroppo. E il rammarico è doppio perché nessuna delle tracce è brutta, anzi. Il mio consiglio è di comprare o ascoltare l’album solo se prima si è ascoltato bene ogni singolo artista. Caotici.
http://www.metalhead.it/?p=92565
When Aleksey Korolyov from Satanath Records did send me a new package of releases for both his labels (besides Satanath Records, Aleksey also runs Symbol Of Domination Productions), I was sort of aroused. There are different reasons. First of all, I do appreciate the variation of material. I adore labels that sort of specialize in one or another specific genre or sub-genre (Doom only, or just raw Underground Black Metal), but I can appreciate labels that focus on a wider musical range as well, at least when the genres have something in common (and without turning into commercialism or big-mass-production). That is the case with both labels mentioned that are founded and run by Aleksey: diverse in their musical outputs, yet with a focus on the heavier and darker sides of the general (Metal) spectrum. Also the qualitative results (this goes at least for the better part of the records) are highly appreciated by undersigned. It does not mean that I like every single release on Satanath or SODP, but the intention is to promote professional and honest stuff from the aural underbelly of Mater Terra, and there is no reason to dislike that attitude.
Some of the main reasons for my arousal and excitation were some specific recordings included this time, like stuff from e.g. Amezarak, Taiga, Abysmal Growls Of Despair, Gravespawn or Aornos, amongst several others. You will have the opportunity to read my thoughts about those releases (and many others) in a (near) future. But most of all I did look out for a collaboration released under the banner of Unholy Ghost Liturgy. Reason: this is a creation done by two of my highest-adored one-man projects: Cryostasium and Abigorum. The first one is the main outfit by Cody Maillet, a guy from Boston that brings something quite nasty and, at the same time, enormously intriguing. On April 29th 2015, for example, I published a review for his untitled EP, which was released as well, by the way, via Satanath Records. Together with his twin brother Thor, Cody did record some material too under the CTM-moniker; here to you might find a review I did, more specific for the CTM3-album, posted on this site on June 6th 2016. Oh yes, more Cryostasium material will be reviewed by undersigned as well, but first things first, and that’s this specific album, an unholy collaboration that also includes Abigorum. The latter is a solo-outfit by label-owner Aleksey Korolyov, and I was crazy (or is it: I went crazy) by the nameless demo-MCD from 2012 (the very first release on Satanath Records), yet especially the title track from the EP My Haemophilia (review updated on August 20th 2014) did shock me – the positive way. And now Aleksey and Cody joined forces… So can you imagine my excitement now?...
Yet I have to admit that I was quite cautious when I started listening to Unholy Ghost Liturgy the very first time. It would be devastating if my high expectations couldn’t be fulfilled. Anyway, the artwork drew my attention in the first place. It was created by Mikhail Larin aka Mosa Eye, who did some cover artwork before for releases by e.g. Dig Me No Grave, Tiran, The Nameless a.o. It shows a gigerian being, a vile monster, on a sober three-coloured background. Actually, the whole lay-out (Unholy Ghost Liturgy is a digipack album, released in an edition limited to 500 copies) is quite sober yet, to my opinion, enormously attractive.
But now, finally, some more ‘depth’ about the sonic side. This release consists of twenty titles, all together clocking about seventy minutes (indeed, not a soundtrack for the weak-hearted). All of them were written by both guys involved, and this during a period of more than two years. Aleksey once told me that there was something exciting to come, but I hadn’t expected this. Hurray! I can give some general description about this recording, but there is so much to experience, so I’ll focus on some details – a brief essay about some compositions on this album (describing all of them would be little exaggerated, seen the fact that this project-recording consists of twenty different pieces).
Fair is to start with the first impression you might undergo, i.e. the opening track Monsoon Release. Immediately both projects come to mind (which isn’t always the case on this album – see further). Monsoon Release opens quite ominous and suffocative, referring to the funereal attitude of Abigorum. Quite soon it evolves into an ultimately obscure metallic experience, mingling that grim and doomy essence that characterises Abigorum, with the necrotic performance courtesy of Cryostasium. Damn, it makes me horny (figuratively, of course)… Next comes Unholy Ghosts, and like quite some other compositions on this album (like Forgotten Lines), it surely breathes the essence of Cryostasium’s raison d’être. Especially when talking about the semi-chaotic execution, the discordant execution of guitar lines and percussion, and the rusty, rough sound - read: that striborgian ugliness (‘ugly’ in its most beautiful definition, evidently) - I must think about the American half of this project especially. But here too - and evidently that counts for the whole of Unholy Ghost Liturgy - there are quite some Abigorum-related injections, varying from those dissonant Funeral Doom aspects to the unpolished grimness of the untitled 2012-debut demo. More dissonance and sonic rape follows, but with a bunch of quite varying elements. Liturgia, for example, is such a piece, combining semi-acoustic guitars, playing a somewhat melancholic / depressed melody, with wretched voices (at the background), slowly pounding drum patterns, and integer bass lines. It’s little spooky, quite breath-taking, and ultimately uncomfortable, despite the lack of being ‘Metal’. The very same, at least more or less, goes for the better part of the compositions on Unholy Ghost Liturgy (Spruce And Cedarwood, The Quiet Room (a true Black Metal anthem, a pyroclastic hymn, a blackened highlight!), Santalum, Forgotten Lines etc.). Interesting too is the robotic (female?) voice that shows up a couple of times – I’m not sure, but this might be Hatsune Miku’s voice, who worked with Cody in the (recent) past (here on such pieces like Infinite Colonization or Last Galaxy). Some other compositions are rather industrialised and psychotic / psychotropic / psychopathic / psychopathologic, such as the weird ‘songs’ Systematic Apocalypse (that mechanical result, and those vocals, WTF?!), Realization Of Regress (rather to be considered as some neurotic ritual from the Dark Ambient / Drone scene – hail!) or Negative Soul (including bizarre yet highly attractive church bell alike sounds and other percussional experiments). I also feel the urge (oink?) to mention the CME cover-track None, taken from the Mund album (CME is a short-lived project that included Cody Maillet and Macabre Enslaver’s Mirg); a shorter, faster and more eccentric and hallucinogenic interpretation from the original one.
Overall, the production might be little substandard. That’s a pity, even though I prefer such sound quality above a clinically polished one, evidently. However, sometimes the mishmash of noises makes certain aspects inferior to others, and that’s a shame. You do miss some details, some points that deserve attention (I’m not always sure whether there is a voice on the background or not), once in a while, I think. I’m referring to bass and rhythm guitars (nevertheless, once in a while they do overrule, cf. Essential Death, a lengthy monster of Sado-Maso-Sonic-Torturing Pleasure), to the distant voices, or to the background noises. But it’s not that terrible at all, let’s be sure about that. It’s just a (minor) point of criticism that must get ameliorated with both guys’ next collaborative effort (hey, I hope there will be one…).
http://www.concreteweb.be/reviews/abigorum-cryostasium
Collaborations don't happen all that often in Metal. They happen, but they're few and far between. Unless you're CRYOSTASIUM. This fifth collaboration is with Saint Petersburg, Russia's one-man project ABIGORUM. Of course, CRYOSTASIUM is a one-man project also, based out of Boston, Massachusetts. The melding of two forces is always exciting, allowing both bands to breathe a little into each other's musical minds. And I must say, "Unholy Ghost Liturgy" is a little difficult to describe. But I'll give it a shot. The oOpening track 'Monsoon Release' starts off with a pounding drum rhythm with a faint chorus floating around in the background. 'Unholy Ghosts' takes a u-turn and welcomes in a somber atmosphere with despairing vocals. 'Liturgia' and its anguished cries swaying into the mix change the tone again, while keeping with the atmosphere of the album so far. 'Forgotten Lines' picks up the pace a little big with classic old school blastbeats and screeching vocals which drop into deep murmurings. 'Last Galaxy' is another upbeat delivery before the warped, wobbling the next track, 'Negative Soul'. So far, quite a selection of dissonance and mind-numbing antipathy... but yet enjoyable. I can go on and on through the twenty tracks on "Unholy Ghost Liturgy", but what you really need to know is that this album is ever changing, ever mesmerizing, sometimes nerve-wracking, sometimes chaotic ('Frozen Perspectives'), sometimes icy-cold ('Reflexes Program') and often experimental. So give it a try. Close your eyes, set the appropriate lighting (not that you can see it because your eyes are closed), and just enjoy the ambience and sometimes harsh atmospherics. You just might be surprised at how much you dig it.
http://www.voicesfromthedarkside.de/Albums-EPs-Demos/C/CRYOSTASIUM-ABIGORUM--10830.html
Dangereux exercice que d’aborder cette collaboration entre Cryostasium et Abigorum qui trouve sa raison dans la folie, son intérêt musical dans la dissonance, son aspect terrifiant dans l’ironie. D’abord parce que la démarche n’est guère habituelle : plutôt que de proposer un split classique, les deux projets livrent ici un travail commun, ficelé et intriguant autant que déstabilisant. Tel Donald Trump serrant la patte de Vlad Poutine, l’Américain Cody Maillet de Cryostasium (et accessoirement de Bone Ritual, Goat Felch, Witch Tomb) franchit le détroit de Béring pour forger alliance avec le Russe Aleksey Korolyov (Abigorum donc). Le résultat est cet Unholy Ghost Liturgy qui prend aux tripes d’un bout à l’autre. La nausée musicale instillée par ces nappes de guitares désaccordées est violente, proche des symptômes provoqués par l’écoute intégrale de la discographie de Striborg, après une orgie de Xasthur. On perd tout sentiment de repère dans ce magma sonore flou, inquiétant et écrasant. Ajoutez-y des nappes de synthés enfantines et malodorantes, des bruitages de cartoons totalement décalés, une touche « jazzy », quelques sons electro, des gémissements ou des hurlements captés dans une cellule capitonnée, une basse « autistique » jouant dans son coin, sans trop s’interroger sur l’avis des autres instruments : vous cernerez un peu mieux l’état de santé mentale des deux camarades. Â ranger en bonne place aux côtés de Slagmaur, Pensées Nocturnes, du premier Panopticon, du split entre Xasthur et Striborg, de l’autobiographie de Jeffrey Dahmer, du journal intime de Charles Manson et d’un flacon de barbituriques: sous clé, hors de portée de enfants et des schizophrènes.
http://mithratemplezine.com/chronique-abigorum-cryostasium-unholy-ghost-liturgy-collaboration-2016/
From what I can understand this is not a split but a collaboration. I have no idea how it works, if the bands incorporate each bands music into new songs or if they alternate songs between them. I’m a bit familiar with CRYOSTASIUM’s ambient black metal so that part I am looking forward to. ABIGORUM are new to me. From what I can understand listening to this both bands work on songs together making it black metal with both atmospheric and ambient vibes. As I am a huge fan of bands like Lustre and a whole host of the same this should really appeal to me. And it does. And although I would have liked for it to be a bit more OTT this is still good.
http://battlehelm.com/reviews/abigorum-cryostasium-unholy-ghost-liturgy/
This is co-music release of American and Russian one-man bands.
Unholy Ghost Liturgy is most bizarre, depressive and ill-tempered ambient black metal album I have heard recently. They prepared sickening- abyssic sound with multiple distortions and you can hear everything like it was coming from another room but behind locked doors. Music is full of suffering and darkness like there was presence of tortured and tormented souls in hell while they were making music. The album is evil minded and suicidal. They used some samplers to increase fear and insanity that will probably drives you mad. There is a constant threat in music that emphasizes confusion. I feel quite unsettled with this album and they even “want you to die” like it says in one of their songs...
I am not going to pretend that I like amateur sound of this record. It`s pity that a lot of bands are losing their potential releasing their music with production other than professional. If they have chosen just better sound like in first song, music could reveal much scarier and powerful range of frightening, especially on this very tense and mind-terror spreading album. That`s a shame they did not let that happen to their songs and because of that...It is kind of “love it or hate it” record but I am not misguided by anything they do with music. I am fascinated by malevolence of their songs and believe it or not I never heard anything such abominable and original like these 2 bands. Except it`s good album with shitty sound, everything that appear abnormal is just normal to specific realm of this record.
Both bands are worth each other when comes to play really spooky and bizarre stuff which they are quite persistent when doing so (over one hour of music).
Voy a ser muy pero muy acotado en esta reseña. Me explico: me ha tocado comentar con este ya el cuarto trabajo de Cryostasium, y siempre me sentí incapacitado de hacer una crítica como me gustaría. Pero esto no se debe a las bandas implicadas (en este caso los de USA se aliaron con los rusos Abigorum) sino a una simple y llana falta de conocimiento de mi parte.
Solo diré que lo que sale de los parlantes es música experimental mezclada con ambient mezclado con black mezclado con noise mezclado con lo que se les ocurra.
Descúbranlo ustedes mismos.
http://rockarollazine.blogspot.ru/2017/10/abigorum-cryostasium-unholy-ghost.html
This is unusual: two one-man bands share their efforts for a digipack collaboration creating 20 tracks together. Abigorum is from Russia and is an Ambient/Black/Doom project of Satanath records' owner himself, whereas USA's Cryostasium deals with Ambient and Black Metal.
It's kind of tricky or fascinating depending on the points of view to review over one hour of material especially if you haven't heard any of their previous separate stuff, but we can say that it's always pleasant to listen to somebody's capable actions trying to break more boundaries within Metal.
Voices from the otherworld and then a rapid assault with blastbeats contrasting with the slow guitar plot compose the instrumental "Monsoon Release", which was chosen to kick off the album.
Compressed and heavy sounds are the bases of the glacial Metal of "Unholy Ghosts", along with dissonant keyboards and cosmic noises making the track unique. The screams in the background are either diabolical or desperate.
Other spectral screams, this time from a grave or a morgue, mark the start of "Liturgia", a composition of Funeral Doom Metal in the vein of Skepticism where the guitar is highly distorted and minimalistic, whereas the concluding keys are morbid as ever.
A few Black Metal elements appear in "Forgotten Lines", a short track of primitive, fast, raw constituents where the screams are similar to far laments from a cursed dimension.
"Last Galaxy" is a long piece lasting almost 7 minutes beginning with painfully morbid keys that only Necrophagia's might be equal to; the rhythm later veers towards a mid-tempo dirty and swampy Black Metal pattern, in which the guitar - on occasions Black Metal on others Drone Metal - is always preponderant in comparison with the bass, while bizarre key lines make a parody of some Pop melody. The snare drum, though, refers to Scott Burns' dry old school productions and is surprisingly fit for this situation. At a certain point, it nearly seems that the two musicians are jamming or testing their equipment waiting for a new idea, while all of a sudden there's a fugue to a repetitive Black Metal riff accompanying us till the end.
"Negative Soul" has a threatening beginning before growing Progressive Black Metal thanks to pulsating drumming, and bass strokes under Steve Di Giorgio's influence. The keyboards are horrorific, and the bell tolls from the symth don't promise anything good, while the sulphurean guitars get to riff alone until the conclusion.
After the simple low-fi Black 'n' Rolling Metal riff delivered by "Frozen Perspectives", we hit even deeper low-fi levels when our CD player plays "Spruce And Cedarwood", which sounds like an instrumental Black Metal excerpt drawn from an obscure 80s demotape.
With "Systematic Apocalypse" sick keyboards reminding several Lucio Fulci's flicks are matched with demonic vocals alà "Evil Dead" and drum programming. The Black Metal in the background is interrupted a good number of times as if the composers meant to emphasize diabolical intrusions during the recording. As scary and ingeneous as fuck, a must for horror lovers, trust me!
Differently from the previous, "Monsoon Dreams" enjoys clean sounds, still being instrumental Black Metal enriched by malevolent keyboards touches as an accompaniment.
"Essential Death" turns out to be the longer opus featured in this CD. It utilizes obsessive bass lines, keeping drums in the limelight, and adding ghosts' whispers as well as beggings towards an unknown reciver to die; finally, frightening sounds are tacked on the Black Thrash Metal tissue. You will really feel like being thrown into a state of exaggerated anxiety and discomfort; you will surely feel lots of fatigue to stand all of that sadistic chaos and insanity until the final. If objects start moving by themselves or other strange unexplained events will occur in your place, don't be surprised!
The slowing down makes your blood freeze and the guitar weaves inhuman rhythmic changes until the keyboards close everything as if you were Alice in Wonderland on acid in hell.
"Santalum" is again fast Black Metal including incomprehensible vocals and noises somewhat similar to the distorted, feeble jammed ones sent from a space base to earth. Only in the last seconds does the guitar become slower but that's just for a short while before the ultimate acceleration.
I've been trying to define "Realization Of Regress" many times without success, yet today it happens to be framed into a category finally: it is a mongrel between Sunn O ))), Scorn and a Satanic mass tune.
Unexpectedly, "Reflexes Program" makes me think of some mid-90s Napalm Death Industrial remix, to then turn into a sort of Industrial Black Metal with disturbed voices recurring to a main riff sucking everything into its vortex like a black hole does. It's worth emphasizing that the drums seem human and not programmed and also that the finalè is cut and that leaves us unsatisfied.
"The Quiet Room" is Marduk-like together with terrifying vocals, very rapid beats and bass thumping. All of this creates paroxysm going well beyond Naked City and Painkiller put together.
The Black Metal of "Infinite Colonization" uses fatter sounds, keys from a funeral march accelerated so that they're even bantering the Grim Reaper. The general feeling is the one of being engulfed by an invisible layer of negativity as black as pitch and as demented as a madhouse ward. Awesome is the end with lugubrious keys, unfortunately once again abruptly interrupted. It is a pity that the editing hasn't been taken care of properly and this is the second time that a song has been ruined in this unprofessional way.
"Mysore's Cocoon" comes across as another chip of unpolished Black Metal awash in possessed shrieks not so distant from the above-cited "Spruce And Cedarwood", whereas "Bioengineering Collapse" comprises 5 minutes of Noise alternated with freezing harsh Black Metal sometimes Progressive, where the keys go solo when their goal isn't scaring the shit out of your pants. The guitar produces a vast array of riffs all of the time (tribal, Nu Metal, Black Metal), while the vocals are absent, replaceed by menacing metallic breaths.
First "None", a CME's cover, is Black Metal employing an almost harmless guitar, with that it ends up coming to be a nightmare when different types of hell incarnate vocals appear in all of their lust and wickedness. It is also very interesting to notice that this track later shows screams/growls close to Cryptopsy's Lord Worm, which are subject to vocal effects in the last seconds.
Without any silence pause begins "Outro", a really brief musical creation, which is simply based upon vampiric keys and contains just two cymbal strokes.
This is not an album meant to be heard in the background, nor is it an attack Black metal one, although ferocious minutes of that are present, too. Indeed, these experimental and often strange 69 minutes were conceived to destabilize, scare and give you an insane sense of satisfaction you wouldn't expect from yourselves, just like the dreadful beastly artwork hints.
For those who will be able to understand it, this album will be deemed a symbiotic masterpiece from two geniuses.
http://www.rockmetalbands.com/Cryostasium&Abigorum_review.htm
This is co-music release of American and Russian one-man bands.
Unholy Ghost Liturgy is most bizarre, depressive and ill-tempered ambient black metal album I have heard recently. They prepared sickening- abyssic sound with multiple distortions and you can hear everything like it was coming from another room but behind locked doors. Music is full of suffering and darkness like there was presence of tortured and tormented souls in hell while they were making music. The album is evil minded and suicidal. They used some samplers to increase fear and insanity that will probably drives you mad. There is a constant threat in music that emphasizes confusion. I feel quite unsettled with this album and they even “want you to die” like it says in one of their songs...
I am not going to pretend that I like amateur sound of this record. It`s pity that a lot of bands are losing their potential releasing their music with production other than professional. If they have chosen just better sound like in first song, music could reveal much scarier and powerful range of frightening, especially on this very tense and mind-terror spreading album. That`s a shame they did not let that happen to their songs and because of that...It is kind of “love it or hate it” record but I am not misguided by anything they do with music. I am fascinated by malevolence of their songs and believe it or not I never heard anything such abominable and original like these 2 bands. Except it`s good album with shitty sound, everything that appear abnormal is just normal to specific realm of this record.
Both bands are worth each other when comes to play really spooky and bizarre stuff which they are quite persistent when doing so (over one hour of music).