If you think you’re up for mega-low-end drone, throat-singing and a willfully grueling expanse, by all means, test your constitution against that which France’s Abysmal Growls of Despair have on offer. The litmus doom outfit have released no fewer than 17 full-length releases in the last six years, and their upcoming-or-maybe-it’s-out-already-I-don’t-know Sentir le Poids des Montagnes et Trouver la Paix Dans les Ténèbres is one song clocking in at 66 minutes and six seconds — get it? — issued through UK imprint Blue Tapes on cassette and CD. It is not for the faint of heart or anyone not looking to have their perceptions challenged or moods altered. It is a work that is purposefully oblique as well as purposefully bleak, and, well, it was apparently recorded with six basses. I would imagine that, in a live setting, it simply sounds like death.

So enjoy:

Doom for Martians! New release from Abysmal Growls of Despair!

Incoming! Epic abyssal kargyraa-doom

Exploring hitherto unchartered abysses with its ultra-ultra-low-frequency 432Hz recording of six basses, six guitars and rumbling, tectonic kargyraa vocals, blue twenty-nine: Abysmal Growls of Despair maybe is what doom sounds like on Mars.

The landscape of Mars is known as ‘chaos terrain’ and nothing on Earth resembles it. It consists of irregular blocks, some that are tens of kilometres across and and a hundred or more meters high patterned with craters that are hundreds of metres deep – a terrain ravaged by geological wars between countless ice ages and planet-reshaping activity from Mars’ three god-named volcanos – Elysium Mons, Hecates Tholus and Albor Tholus.

Consisting of one 66 minute and 6 second track, Sentir Le Poids Des Montagnes Et Trouver La Paix Dans Les Ténèbres, blue twenty-nine would make an excellent soundtrack to navigating these alien crevasses and subterranean glaciers, with the ethereal throat-singing of Hangsvart (Abysmal’s one-man doom army) chasing around the ragged stalagmites and stalactites of Sunn 0)))-crushing guitar like Martian ghosts.

Highly recommended for fans of Phurpa, Senayawa, Huun-Huur-Tu or even Blue Tapes’ own Jute Gyte, be warned that you do not so much ‘listen’ to this music as let it penetrate you. But don’t let the band name fool you, there is great ecstasy to be found in surrendering to this planet-eating sound.

Listen to Sentir Le Poids Des Montagnes Et Trouver La Paix Dans Les Ténèbres back-to-back with our last release – The Blue Tapes House Band’s equally epic Chase Me Before The Plague – and consciousness may never feel quite the same again.

Available on pro-dubbed C66.6 with onbody printing and O-card featuring Blue Tapes artwork; or on CD with obi strip and artwork by Atraxura.

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Abysmal Growls of Despair, “Sentir le Poids des Montagnes et Trouver la Paix Dans les Ténèbres” excerpt

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