This is death (or life reborn) in measures of planetary lifetimes.
Disks of gas churn endlessly and dark matter engulfs them with equal eternal fervor on songs like “I am Born from a Star,” “No Soul Is Near,” and the title track. But our focus is Ancient Shadows of Saturn (2018), where Lumnos shed an almost Lycia-like light on the darkest recesses of our black metal galaxy. Now, Lumnos have jettisoned from their interstellar vehicle seven full-lengths, two in 2015, two in 2016, and three in 2018, the most recent of which is the aptly titled The Heliosphere Singularity. Key moment: 27:00 and onward.īrazilian/Russian explorers of interstices more distant than ever conceivable - greater than 6 billion AU, perhaps - have been on a solar storm since their (star-sailors Putrefactus and B.M., respectively) split with coma-nauts Auztaroth in 2015. Experience the cosmic horror of Thrones of Rust or float away into eternity where there’s an infinitesimal chance you’ll be brutally obliterated by a mega-comet on its way to lay waste to an unfortunate planet. But that’s just a plot on a very wide and deeper plane. Clearly, if Kaon had a terrestrial ground it’d be the weirder, serrated works of inner/outer-nauts Voivod. Super-angular riffs destroy the conventions of Deathspell Omegaisms with regular ease, resulting in problematical songs that are extra-elliptical the longer they endure. Whereas most cosmic black metal employ tufted keyboards and other cosmic devices to “sound” smooth, Kaon’s geometry isn’t so heedful. This pairing of extremities can be heard on Kaon’s sole effort, Thrones of Rust. Formed out of two white dwarfs smashed by the extramundane influence of proprietor The Watcher (aka Frank Allain yes, he of Fen and Fellwarden fame), Kaon’s nasty nebullar gait is superluminal and barely gelid. Kaon are (or is) currently on hold somewhere in the galaxy NGC 1052-DF2. This when the nightmarish wink perniciously out of the never-ending black to once more wage discord among the galaxies. There, we witness a concert of occultation, timeless in its passing but meaningful in its occurrence. Across five albums - one from each, naturally - we travel superluminously to the Outer Vaults. While many fought battles uneven and changeless, we picked out England-based Kaon, Brazil’s Lumnos, Aussies Mesarthim, Argentina-originated Offenbarung, and Switzerland’s cosmic black metal kingpins Darkspace to comprise our fearfully faraway collection.
We scoured the gibbous moon of Oberon, the vastness outside Ultima Thule, and the doorsteps of Messier 31 for celestial contenders. Their constellations are multifarious and maximal, but the tritium-laced thread that connects each of them is the Great Beyond, where darkness beckons and consumes all.ĭecibel compiled five of the most compelling, earthshiners to expose this oft-underlooked under-genre to our enthralled faithful. Lovecraft lifetimes gone and unknown, welcome to the wondrous, hostile between-space universe of cosmic-themed black metal, for many of our top-listers hail from known places but partake in rituals - musical and frightful - purposefully obscured by the aftermath of manifold death. To trace the remote in the immediate the eternal in the ephemeral the past in the present the infinite in the finite these are to me the springs of delight and beauty.” Well, Mr. Lovecraft once said, “Pleasure to me is wonder–the unexplored, the unexpected, the thing that is hidden and the changeless thing that lurks behind superficial mutability. Exclusive, Featured, Lists Argentina, Australia, black metal, brazil, Cosmic Black Metal, Darkspace, England, home featured, Kaon, Lumnos, Mesarthim, Offenbarung, Russia, Switzerland, Top 5 List.