Sign of Eternal Return is a gloomy and evocative musical tapestry
artfully poised within the dark ambient genre. The diffusing soundscapes
that Korinth weave are particularly conductive in conjuring images of
melancholic desolation with a permeating sense of dread. Although there
is an orchestral feel to the album, it's not quite as triumphantly
Wagnerian or stratocratic as Sophia, tending to be more subtle in its
arrangements.The single composition that comprises the album develops
upon strata of lingering chants, droning sounds and an underlying mesh
of cacophonous effects including clashing metal and rumbling
frequencies. Actually, "develop" is really a loose word in this context,
since compositionally the track's progression never reaches any form of
resolution, it remains veiled in its own mystical aura without ever
transgressing towards an outlet for the increasing tension. And this in
itself is most befitting, given the non-linear nature of the album's
adopted Nietzschean theme of "eternal return", but at the same time it
imposes a sort of musical homogeneity on the track that drags on for a
tad too long even for this kind of music. Not a terribly impressive
effort, but if anything, it's a captivating piece of dark ambient.
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