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This October, American purveyors of the extreme musical underworld Crucial Blast Records will officially re-release Spectre Music Of An Antiquary, the sought out-of-print 2012 album from UK ambient/black/noise metal entity, EMIT.
A
full-length collection of murky ambiance, deranged '80s-style
synthesizer-driven, ritualistic black drift, and stranger sound forays
into black noise, Spectre Music Of An Antiquary was first released as an extremely limited cassette on Glorious North, marking the first new material from EMIT
in over five years. This British outfit has been creating their unique
brand of experimental blackened delirium since the late 1990s, branching
out of a low-fi UK black metal band called Ante Cryst. With EMIT,
the members began to explore a creepy, synth-heavy sound that was
unmistakably descended from black metal but supremely more deformed,
combining harsh electronic noise, horror-movie soundtrack atmospherics,
droning keyboards, wrecked and fractured black metal guitars, and
bizarre vocals that would often push the collective's music into a
strange realm of hallucinatory, ghastly psychedelia.
Though on Spectre Music Of An Antiquary, EMIT's
sound has morphed into something that more resembles some mutated,
primitive '80s darkwave being completely taken over by malevolent
spirits, with eerie electronic drones and distant moaning vocals often
taking over; very different from past recordings, though no less weird
or phantasmagoric. And as with other offerings, Spectre is
concerned more with the occult lore and hidden history of the British
Isles than Satanism or goat worship or any of the other over-used black
metal tropes, which all serves to enhance the wraith-like vibe of these
songs.
A
must-hear for anyone into the murky surrealistic blackness of artists
like Reverorum Ib Malacht (a band that has shared members with Emit in
the past), Yoga, Occultation, Uno Actu, Utarm, and Dapnom, Spectre Music Of An Antiquary
will see official re-release via Crucial Blast on both digital download
and digipak featuring evocative, all-new artwork on October 28th, 2014.
Spectre Music Of An Antiquary Track Listing:
1. Haunter Of Benighted English Summers
2. Mors Wher Devels Are Abrod
3. Dusk Gardens Of Translucent Mansions
4. Shades Over The Mere
5. Trees Once Adornd With Severed Heads
6. Sylvan Old Enchanter
7. Beneath Carvings Linger
8. Earthwork Misthill
9. The Meadow Reapers (A Field Recording)
10. Emanations From Beneath Far Hills, Beyond Far Moons
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