Undulating black globe
Soaked in filthgiving mist
Unending trails, grey grass
Amber sings on velvety black
Phobos transpiring
This enclosing openness
Stretching a ox hide tent
Across an infinite space
Caves open to plains
This has always been the way
We are recalling now
This is sacrificial land
Beneath burdened brow
An empty cavity
A burning ox heart lies
Upon a soggy field
Stinging smoke wafts across
Overwhelming the damp air
Distantly, a voice ululating
From beneath a twisting arch
Too distant; distorted
By elements and time
"These imposters sold charms that made people invulnerable in warfare and fortunate in hunting and preserved them from all danger"
(Charles-Etienne Brasseur de Bourbourg)
The homeostasis of a species
Like a pendulum knocking
And then overcompensating
Artificial magnificence
Godlike reconstructionism
Beneath uncaring whims
A Minotaur with impunity
This cycle unwinding:
Irrefragable but undefinable
Mikolaj is a real multi-talent in bass as well as guitar as well as vocals and "Darkside" Maciej's drumming is a well-calibrated 100th-of-seconds-clockwork. Not for nothing is Mgla considered as a standard for a lot of other blacker-than-black metal bands. I hope to see this band live once..... grote_smurf
Swirling guitars, furious drums, vocals that at the same time howl from infinite distance and are right up in your head; everything put into dissonant form with the help of unconventional songwriting. This album is my personal key to the icelanding black metal madness that I've ignored for way too long! Lukas Kaufmann
Folk-influenced heavy metal; as the title suggests, this LP is all about home, described through landscapes, literature and paintings. Bandcamp New & Notable Jun 6, 2017
I was always intrigued by this group's choice of album covers, it isn't every day that you see high quality space photos in this genre despite the rise of "cosmic" black metal. But the music blew me away, this sounds like Austere took the atmospheric spacey route. (I will assume it's a coincidence that both bands are Australian) porcelainheart-