Innfallen - Three Days of Darkness (c) 2009 First Fallen Star
Artist....: Innfallen
Album.....: Three Days of Darkness
Type......: Album
Source....: CDDA
Tracks....: 8
Genre.....: Ambient
Label.....: First Fallen Star
Catalogue#: ffs004
Encoder...: lame 3.97
Quality...: VBR kbps / 44.1kHz / JS
URL.......: http://www.firstfallenstar.com
Tracklist:
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1. Prologue (Inner Locutions) [8:39]
2. Darkness Descends [3:4]
3. Day One (Outside the Righteous [4:51]
4. Day Two (Gnashing of Teeth) [9:51]
5. Day Three (Closing the Well) [7:58]
6. Light Returns [8:23]
7. Epilogue (Scattered Remains) [10:7]
8. New Dawn [4:58]
Total:86 MB /
Release Notes:
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Innfallen represents the fourth release on First Fallen Star and continues
to walk the ambient realms, albeit in far more darker passages. Seeing
their first three releases, this is going to be a promising new dark-ambient
label with quality releases. Innfallen delivers with ‘Three Days of Darkness’
their debut release. The members of Innfallen are Kevin Scala and Doyle
Finley, known from Invercauld, and is mastered by J. Stillings of Steel
Hook Prostheses. So my expectations run instantly high.
Innfallen created Lovecraftian dark-ambient with pinches of black ambient.
While most black ambient is Lovecraft themed, this is still a very striking
and authentic release. The most striking thing is the layered and very
immersive sound. I’ve heard dime a dozen Lovecraft inspired ambient works,
and much of it is not always very inspired. Some go for a more minimal
approach; others make it more of an ambient noise release. Well, it doesn’t
matter what route you take, it’s what you’re doing with it. Like size!
Innfallen create some very dense and dark atmospheres, without sounding cheap.
It’s also told as a travelogue, where you have a built-up with the first
couple of tracks, then the middle of the album represents the three days of
darkness, spread over three tracks, and the last three songs belong to the
epilogue. Where a lot of those themed albums go wrong with putting random
evil sounds to get an effect, this works as a kind of sound story that is
very much the equivalent of reading something by Lovecraft. The album has a
great storytelling quality that really works very well. It does also not sound
evil for the sake of it, and has some lighter moments too, so it creates of
well-balanced album of light and darkness.
I’m really very impressed with this album. While the concept of a Lovecraftian
dark-ambient album may not be original to say the least, this album as a whole
is amazing! The sounds and structures are very inspired and inventive and have
great depth. Part of this of course is because of the great mastering by
J. Stillings. Well it seems like the last couple of weeks before this year is
over keeps overwhelming me with really great albums, to follow the saying, the
best for last! And lest not forget the great A5 packaging, which perfectly
compliments the music! So I highly recommend this album by Innfallen and
First Fallen Star will be one of the new highlights of dark-ambient labels.
(gothtronic.com review)