EMIT: Obscure UK Ambient/Black Metal Entity Releases Track Through Ghost Cult Magazine
In one week, extreme underworld noise specialist outfit, Crucial Blast, will unveil the worldwide edition of the out-of-print Spectre Music Of An Antiquary, by UK black/ambient outfit, EMIT,
and through the help of Ghost Cult Magazine, another sordid tale from
the album has been posted as evidence of the album’s utter creepiness.
As with EMIT’s previous output, the ten movements on Spectre Music Of An Antiquary
are lyrically more focused on the occult lore and hidden history of the
British isles rather than simply uttering Satanic shock value clichés,
an element which heightens the curiosity level of unsuspecting listeners
and adds a completely innate, sinister vibe to the entire set of tales.
Alongside its eight chapter, “Earthwork Misthill,”
Ghost Cult reports of its research on the record, “This album is
essential for those who delve into the bleak, ambient past of black
metal, thick with atmospherics. This release was so limited and rare in
its initial pressing that this re-issue will see the music seep into the
psyche of fervent fans for the first time ever, in many cases.
‘Earthwork Misthill’ is creepy as hell, but like all of EMIT’s output, never feels contrived.”
As your shovel strikes bone, let the ambient wrath of “Earthwork Misthill” be the soundtrack for your nocturnal occultation; LISTEN HERE.
Following several years of unavailability, Crucial Blast will reissue Spectre Music Of An Antiquary
next Tuesday, October 28th, the six-panel digipak featuring evocative,
all-new artwork. Preorders for the disc and digital versions are posted HERE.
The latest album of murky graveyard ambiance, deranged synth,
phantasmic dread and ritualistic black drift from this cult UK outfit,
their first in nearly ten years is surrealistic, spectral music and
nocturnal delirium transmitted from beyond the veil and steeped in the
mysteries of old Britain, like some twisted, eldritch fusion of Fabio
Frizzi, In Umbra Malitiae Ambulabo-era Abruptum, and 80’s darkwave.
Initially released as an extremely limited cassette on Glorious North, Spectre Music Of An Antiquary presents the first new material from EMIT
in over five years, a full-length collection of murky ambiance,
deranged ‘80s style synth, ritualistic black drift, and stranger sounds
forays into black noise. This British outfit has been creating their
unique brand of experimental blackened delirium since the late ‘90s,
branching out of a low-fi UK black metal band called Ante Cryst, yet
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 their music into
a strange realm of hallucinatory, ghastly psychedelia. On Spectre, though, 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.
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