Kaeck releases its sideproject Death is the master of this world in an attempt to reclaim the more atmospheric moments from Kaeck, Sammath, and Graveland in a mixture of metal, sampled backgrounds, and ambient guitar riffing more at home on a Swans or Carbonized album than in the somewhat rigid environment death/black metal has become.

This album consists of two fourteen-minute tracks, based on roughly the same theme, essentially the rising of unlimitedness from finity through escaping the micromanaging thought process of the herd and Jesus, which is expressed through layers of a theme developing against organically arising internal contradictory dialogue.

This shows us one of the first attempts since the hazy 90s to bring black metal into its natural evolution, which is a hybrid between soundtracks, classical, and the ancient folkloric music of humanity from a millennium ago. Expect less raw aggression and more a slow then sudden drop into suspension of expectation of the finite replaced by a long gaze into the outer universe.

Tags: Black Metal, death is the master of this world, kaeck, sammath