Wednesday 21 August 2013

Wolvserpent - Perigaea Antahkarana (CD Review)


01.Threshold Gateway
02.Within The Light Of Fire
03.In Mirrors Of Water
04.A Breath In The Sahde Of Time
05.Concealed Among The Roots And Soil


Blake Green (Guitar/Vocals/keyboards)
Brittany McConnell (Drums/Violin/Viola)


Three years since the first LP 'Blood Seed' saw the cruel light of day, but the Boise, Idaho duo have been hard at work on its successor. They've just completed work on their 80 minute opus entitled 'Perigaea Antahkarana'.
The album was recorded with producer/engineer Mell Dettmer (SUNN 0))), BORIS) in Seattle and in Idaho at in their home studio.

After a two year writing period, WOLVSERPENT first recorded the 'Perigaea' 2012 demo (pronounced "pear-a-guy-a") between December 2011 and January 2012, and chose to keep it under wraps until the timing was right and their doomed hymns realized their full potential. After nine months and several rewrites had come to pass, the demo was unleashed. They're now offering it as a free stream on Bandcamp and as a download or tape cassette via their official site here, but be forewarned: the upcoming full-length version 'Perigaea Antahkarana' will be an entirely different two horned beast, a completely new manifestation of the ideas heard on the demo.

WOLVSERPENT's sprawling compositions gracefully wend their way through the valleys of death, drone, black metal, doom, and chamber music and arrive triumphantly on foreign shores. Borne of the duo's 20+ years of classical training and deep appreciation for the works of composers like Arvo Part, Gyorgy Ligeti, and Krzysztof Penderecki, WOLVSERPENT's vision combines stringed amplified instruments with a 21st century approach to composition to create works that are dark, emotional, menacing, cinematic, atmospheric, and heartbreakingly beautiful.


This is quite a piece of work, epic, ambient, symphonic doom, slow and dark great use of sound fx, blended with an evil vocal, beautiful violin playing.

Rating 9/10
For fans of : Sunn 0))), Boris, Wolves In The Throne Room, Sigh, Earth

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