ILMESTYS by Ascend Towards The Moon
Tapes : https://solmoribundo.bandcamp.com/album/sol08-ilmestys
"Despite men's suffering, despite the blood and wrath, despite the dead who can never be replaced, the unjust wounds, and the wild bullets, we must utter, not words of regret, but words of hope, of the dreadful hope of men isolated with their fate."
- Albert Camus
"You must be like me; you must suffer in rhythm.
I exist because I think… and I can't stop myself from thinking. At this very moment - it's frightful - if I exist, it is because I am horrified at existing. I am the one who pulls myself from the nothingness to which I aspire.
I want to leave, to go somewhere where I should be really in my place, where I would fit in . . . but my place is nowhere; I am unwanted.
I am. I am, I exist, I think, therefore I am; I am because I think, why do I think? I don't want to think any more"
- Jean-Paul Sartre
Tracklist
| 1. | I | 1:21 |
| 2. | Blood and Wrath | 2:46 |
| 3. | Cosmic Ruin | 7:09 |
| 4. | Dissociation | 2:37 |
| 5. | 0 (Abyss) | 3:36 |
| 6. | Withered Leaves | 5:53 |
| 7. | Netra | 5:31 |
| 8. | Ilmestys | 7:25 |
Credits
"Another triumph of immersion, the record travels through a surprisingly large dynamic range that never loses its magnetism or otherworldly aura, bathing the listener in cold pale light as it subtly transforms both itself and us in multiple ways and invites one to contemplate all the secrets of the universe... and one's own mind."
- Black Metal Daily
"Launched by a sublime overture that really does feel like ascending toward the moon, Ilmestys then explodes in an effusion of tumultuous drums, heaving bass, and waves of magisterial but bereft synths, coupled with piercing guitar vibrations and tormented screams.
That second song, “Blood and Wrath” sets the stage for some of what is to come, but not all, as the wide-ranging “Cosmic Ruin” soon reveals through its exotic, wistful, and astral melodies and restrained (but still potent) rhythms. Trying to map the course of the remaining songs and all their tonal gradients (of which there are many) would risk tedium. Suffice to say that during many moments they are spellbinding and mystical (especially the electronic instrumental “0 (Abyss)”, as well as introspective and sad, but they also reach levels of intensity that are emotionally ruinous — and usually all that happens in the same song."
- No Clean Singing
