It seems that monsieur Malefic has reached many a blackened soul with
his distorted, heavily melancholic take on the black metal aesthetic.
Spectral Lore's covert sole member has delved deep into the mind's most
darkened areas and rose up with this delectable piece of eerie black
metal. The emergent nebular atmosphere of the demo is only something to
be found in the genre's most sincere output of late, namely Leviathan,
Nachtmystium and Velvet Cacoon amongst others. Strangely for a black
metal release, the demo's stripped-to-bare-essentials approach is
non-tiring, thankfully eschewing extravagant crescendos and oft-used
mind-numbing blasts. What with its droning, minimalist passages which
segue into claustrophobic ambience or its delightfully Xasthur-esque
compositions, the music carries the audial sensorium through a
blackened, serpentine journey until the cathartic, post-rockish "The
Cleansing Rain / Morningrise in the Eternal Fields" comes to assuage any
exacerbated wounds. Finally, the demo embarks unto its interesting
synth-based epilogue thus ending its satisfying near 50 minute duration.
Minus the occasional hang-up, such as the out-of-synch vocals /
whispers at times or the prolonged ambient passages, it can become quite
a "grower" for the initiated and not only.
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