XOTHIST Simulacrum LP

XOTHIST Simulacrum LP

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(Fallen Empire)
*** This is a new and unplayed item, direct from the CRUCIAL BLAST shop. ***

DESCRIPTION FROM CRUCIAL BLAST:
   The first full-length from Colorado one-man band Xothist offers yet another intoxicating melding of noise and black metal aesthetics, the sort that I'm always seeking after, delivering a gloriously raw and psychedelic sound across these five tracks of sprawling cosmic cacophony. Hauntingly low-fi nightside melodies seep through Xothist's gauzy, rotted veil of crackling ectoplasmic energy, the album opening into a soft bed of murmuring feedback, drifting like low-laying fog across the opening minutes of the LP. A somber, solemn introduction to Simulacrum that slowly swells in volume as vague chordal melodies unfold in the depths of the mix, a murky ambient drift draped in soured moonglow; then that nocturnal haze is suddenly shredded apart as a snare drum counts off and Xothist lunges into a churning, speaker shredding blur of low-fi black metal, with amplifiers cranked so hard into the high end that the riffs become a hazy smear of trebly hiss, awash in low-fi static and moldering murk. The noisy high-end production on this LP almost buries the tinny rumble of the drums beneath that blanket of hissing distortion and searing blackened riffage; that deliberately blown-out recording fully embraces the mind-flaying properties of black static, creating a sound that's going to be most appreciated by fans of the noisiest extremes of black metal.
    Simulacrum might not head all the way into Wold territory (though at times it definitely comes close) and the long, sprawling songs do follow a fairly traditional type of black metal structure, but the production aesthetics and needle-prick guitars bring an intensely corrosive texture to Xothist's version of black metal. The vocals are rendered totally incomprehensible beneath all of that distortion, a furious impassioned scream enmeshed with so much high-end hiss that it more resembles the howl of icy wind rushing through high mountain passes in the deepest shadows of winter, a mysterious murkiness obscuring the band's lyrics. But beneath all of that trebly hiss and blown-out distorted guitar, there's actually some immensely majestic black metal to be found here, the sweeping tremolo leads echoing the epic feel of classic second wave outfits, each song unfolding into a lengthy introspective epic enshrouded in that thick blanket of distorted static, with forays into warbling blown-out guitar noise or droning bass-guitar plod and pools of corroded kosmische star-rot that ooze off of the grooves of this LP in deformed, atonal instrumental passages; parts of this almost resemble something off of an old Broken Flag cassette, leading into the next blast of icy, isolationist frenzy. And even when the songs shift into a vicious lurching heaviness or a murderous mid-tempo groove, that blizzard of hiss remains constant, an omnipresent flurry of sonic filth swirling endlessly around the regal, mournful melodies. Fantastic.   © CRUCIAL BLAST
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