Atramentus Post Second Stygian Excerpt; Preorders Up
Hey, I don’t care that I’m basically posing the same info as last time about the forthcoming Atramentus debut, Stygian — there’s new audio. And if you, like me, feel like plunges to some of the darkest, most annihilated recesses doom has to offer, well, then consider what the excerpt below portends as you make your way through its grueling four minutes. I still haven’t heard the whole record, but fingers crossed I will soon, because the sooner my brain gets pummeled into a flattened mass of pink toothpaste, I think the better off we’ll all be. Splat.
Album preorders are up now through 20 Buck Spin, who are on something of a roll when it comes to different looks of extremity, and through Bandcamp. Pick your poison.
Not from the PR wire:
ATRAMENTUS – ‘Stygian’ Preorders and Second Excerpt
Preorders: https://www.20buckspin.com/collections/atramentus
and https://listen.20buckspin.com/album/stygian
From the frozen northlands Atramentus unveil the icebound agony of the monolithic ‘Stygian’. Birthed on a cold winter night in 2012 and during an autumnal sunset in 2013, the cursed tale remained dormant for years, only recently being put to tape so the nameless knight’s saga could be told.
Granted immortality through the gift of the God’s sword, the nameless knight eventually witnesses the death of the sun and the end of all life on Earth. Surviving the great deluge, he is left to wander amongst the ruins of a now frozen earth under a sunless sky for eternity, alone and unable to die even by the scorching-cold blizzard winds around him, enduring perpetual physical torture while haunted by the memories of his past life and everyone he once knew buried under miles of ice.
Each of the three epic songs contained within differ widely to reflect the changing of autumn to perpetual winter. While adorned in the language of Extreme Funeral Doom and Dark Ambient soundscape, Atramentus owe further debt to Epic Doom Metal in sound and aesthetic and Black Metal’s anguished ferocity. But always the arc of Atramentus remains bound to the tumultuous melancholy and guttural immensity of Extreme Doom.
Stygian Track Listing:
1. Stygian I: From Tumultuous Heavens… (Descended Forth The Ceaseless Darkness)
2. Stygian II: In Ageless Slumber (As I Dream In The Doleful Embrace Of The Howling Black Winds)
3. Stygian III: Perennial Voyage (Across The Perpetual Planes Of Crying Frost & Steel-Eroding Blizzards)
ATRAMENTUS:
Phil Tougas – vocals, guitars
Claude Leduc – guitars
François Bilodeau – keys, dark ambient elements,
Antoine Daigneault – bass
Xavier Berthiaume – drums
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