When Bitter Spring Sleeps - "Star-Thrown" CD Digipack $10
When Bitter Spring Sleeps celebrates the return to underground metal with the stunning new full-length, Star-Thrown. While honoring WBSS' pagan black metal roots, Star-Thrown adds choral vocals, and space atmospheric elements to its underground sound. In a bold move, the vocals performed by Lord Sardonyx are now entirely choral in style, somewhat akin to a cloister of secluded monks. Combined with the black metal guitars and ethereal guitar synth leads, this achieves not an "symphonic" sound, but the feel of a sort of "Cosmic Cathedral".
Mastering of STAR-THROWN was performed by the almighty Andrew D'Cagna, owner/engineer at Sacred Sound Recording and Mastering as well as member of such amazing acts as OBSEQUIAE, NECHOCHWEN, IRONFLAME, and COLDFELLS.
Star-Thrown is When Bitter Spring Sleeps' THIRD full-length album, following full-Length albums COVEN OF THE WOLVES and SPIRIT IN FLAMES, a self-titled demo, and a split album with the mighty PANOPTICON. Previous album SPIRIT IN FLAMES featured a very raw and heathen sound with heavy Bathory and Summoning leanings. Pagan black metal with clean vocals. Before that, COVEN OF THE WOLVES featured the primordial beauty of nature, cast into songs of melodic, earthbound pagan doom Featuring a cover and layout by Misty Visions Art (Wedrujacy Wiatr, Stworz, Fall, etc.)
Star-Thrown creates a cosmic atmosphere without sounding like other atmospheric metal acts. Instead of cold, digital synths, only purely analog instruments are used to conjure all sounds on the album. Instead of screeching, or roaring vocals, a chorus of ethereal chants. The metal aspect of the music itself claims inspiration from acts like Summoning and Bathory.
Star Thrown track-listing:
1. CosmiCathedraLumination
2. Lost Amidst This Moonlit Verdure
3. Astral Blood
4. From Soil To Stars
5. Eternity Speaks
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I wanted to accentuate the vocal harmonies by removing the Heavy Metal entirely from this track. Now, only the guitar synths and vocal tracks are audible.
Space. A lot of bands have already explored this topic. And that's fine with me. Star-Thrown does not explore space in a science-fiction sense, however. The concept behind the first song entitled CosmiCathedraLumination is part science, part personal belief. It sums up my perspective, that while I DO NOT believe in an afterlife, eternal life, or anything of the sort, I DO believe that I am part of the universe and will continue to exist as part of the universe even after I have died. And when the sun dies, the Earth ends, and everything that we know as Nature, will be thrown to stars. There's a possibility that something from Earth will one day create life on other worlds. Now, that is all just science, of course, and that's not very interesting for art.
So, I instead used the song to create an atmosphere that I'd imagined - A Comic Cathedral. That of the universe as a spiritual place made up of both reality and spirit. I conjured my version of space ambient. I conjured my version of a literal cloister of monks chanting the lyrics.
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released August 31, 2017
Lord Sardonyx - performance, recording, remix
supported by 19 fans who also own “CosmiCathedraLumination (Dungeon Synth Version)”
What an impressive piece of black metal. This one-man hurricane is pure art. Sgah‘gahsowáh creates an haunting atmosphere. He puts so much soul in his music. Sælzer Bub
supported by 18 fans who also own “CosmiCathedraLumination (Dungeon Synth Version)”
I hear a clear Enslaved vibe, tastefully complemented with echoes from the new wave of north americana prog death, which might not even be a thing. unidual
supported by 17 fans who also own “CosmiCathedraLumination (Dungeon Synth Version)”
NONE a opéré un virage dans Where Life Should Be et ça se confirme davantage dans Damp Chill of Life. Le temps des métaphores est révolu : l'humidité froide, c'est celle des larmes qui coulent sur le visage à cause de la dépression. Tout pleure dans cet album : les guitares typées DSBM grésillent, les solos ("The Damp Chill of Life", "It's Painless To Let Go") sont liquides et coulent, les voix prennent à la gorge ; même le piano, étranglé par les sanglots ("Cease"), est aphone. Insoutenable... Jordan Vauvert
Tokyo band contrast black metal's brutal complexity with shoegaze's abyssal grandeur, resulting in an LP that feels crushing, yet infinite. Bandcamp New & Notable Aug 24, 2022
