For fans of traditional sweeping but slower-paced black metal in the style of Enslaved and Graveland, but with a homebrew twist that calls to mind the most abstract of death metal structuralism, Armophophallus Titanum delivers an album of saturating experiences.
Named after the scientific nomenclature for the giant corpse flower, this band aims to make black metal that is deliberately cerebral but creates a visceral experience through Jungian and Schopenhauerian unconscious symbolism of existential nodal points in the life of someone striving for awareness in a world gone silent.
Brooding, dark, but playful this sweeping black metal eschews blasting madness for a dense mood that gains layers as melodies emerge from contrary impulses that at first appear chaotic, leaving us with a vision like a silent landscape in the subconscious, shrouded in fog and echoing with unheard cries.
Not the usual shit… Bert did your Mom send this to u in a care package?