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release:
artist....: Sutekh Hexen
album.....: Primeval
type......: album
source....: WEB/MP3
tracks....: 8
genre.....: Metal
label.....: Cyclic Law
store date: 2025-01-24
catalogue#: 279th Cycle
encoder...: LAME3.99r
quality...: 320 kbps / 44100Hz / Joint stereo
URL.......: https://open.qobuz.com/album/xdovahbp7jfma
tracklist:
- [ 01. The Clarion Call 03:28.24 ]
- [ 02. Cavern Rite 04:16.27 ]
- [ 03. Orædjinn 07:38.45 ]
- [ 04. Pyre 03:27.75 ]
- [ 05. Moss Skull 04:16.79 ]
- [ 06. River Of Shadows 04:54.31 ]
- [ 07. Severed & Sealed 03:05.34 ]
- [ 08. Malediction 05:00.19 ]
comment: |
SUTEKH HEXEN at the core has conducted experimental black metal
deconstructionism from the blight of the Bay Area, and depending on conceptual
framework, with a global cast of high-calibre talented collaborators for over
13 years. Initially (and anonymously) SUTEKH HEXEN took the underground by
storm with a trio of very limited demo tapes utilizing their distinctive
unification of raw atmospheric black metal with scathing noise electronics,
heavy textural anti-rhythms, dark ambient expanse and unsettling vocals. And
with each consecutive release the concepts, production and dynamics became more
elaborate without compromising their foundation.
However with this latest offering, 'Primeval', the magisterial sonic-alchemists
present a rather dramatic focus, reembodying their trajectory from another
angle of the point; still haunting and immersing the listener in an eerily
familiar space their space...
Recorded on location in the majestic (darkness) of the redwood forests,
decaying WWII era bunkers and a light-soaked wooden chapel on the west coast in
California and Oregon, to the northeastern haunted pastures of the first
American witch trials in New England, the urban brutalism of Berlin, to the
glorious and ancient caverns deep within the French Pyrenees.
SUTEKH HEXEN have undeniably pushed and progressed boundaries once again.
'Primeval' can be considered their most authentic, cinematic and polarizing
album to date. With these 7 tracks of base elemental transmutations, utilizing
arrangements of exclusively acoustic instrumentation and other non-electric
methods of sound generation via acoustic strings (guitars, viola, violin),
percussion (metal, stone, wooden objects, timpani), wind (pipe organ and
open-air orations) resulting in their brightest recorded material ...casting
the darkest shadow.
The journey begins, perhaps this is the end or maybe the beginning? The theme
closed full circle, were you (t)here?
biography: |
Experimental black metal/noise from San Francisco/Oakland, CA Info:
www.sutekhhexen.org Booking/contact: info@sutekhhexen.org
Available: "Monument of Decay 12"EP/CD/2xC10 on Black Horizons and
Belaten. "Become" 12"EP on King of the Monsters
http://kingofthemonstersrecords.bigcartel.com/ "Breed In Me the
Darkness: The Second Coming Mixes by Andrew Liles" LP/CD on Aurora
Borealis and Pesanta Urfolk -
http://pesanta.bigcartel.com/product/sutekh-hexen-breed-in-me-the-darkness-second-coming-mixes-by-andrew-liles
<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Sutekh+Hexen">Read more on Last.fm</a>