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Serpent Ascending – Ananku (2016)

by Daniel Maarat on December 25, 2016

Ananku is a term from the Tamil language describing the otherworldly and awesome power of sublime natural places and objects to overwhelm mankind into submission to their will by merely the perception of them. Jarno Nurmi of Serpent Ascending accomplishes this musically on his album of the same name by composing harmonized heavy and black metal style leads atop a death metal rhythmic basic into occult blackened narratives. Riffs are phrased and repeat to numerologically unfold, revealing profound and novel melodic leads as if the petals of a flower gradually blooming into gnostic truth when bathed in unconquered light.

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Ananku Out on CD

by Daniel Maarat on December 7, 2016

Serpent Ascending‘s Ananku came out on CD recently courtesy of I, Voidhanger Records. The solo project of Jarno Nurmi of Desecresy, Serpent Ascending compose heavy and speed metal riffs into occult narratives of blackened death metal. Ananku is limited to 300 copies and may be purchased from Jarno Nurmi himself at the Serpent Ascending bandcamp page.

<a href="http://i-voidhangerrecords.bandcamp.com/album/ananku" target="_blank" rel="nofollow external">Ananku by SERPENT ASCENDING</a>

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Meditations on Ananku

by Staff on August 26, 2016

Article by Lance Viggiano.

Ananku is random stereotypical sentimentality in terms of both pseudo climactic release and legacy nostalgia underscored by the crooning of its capricious composer. One may skip to any moment of this record and find a passable to competent riff which invites the listener to further explore its contents. Yet to sit through the work in succession, the order – or lack thereof- is much akin to a dreamlike state. Waking life is a comedic but rationally apprehensive continuity; whereas the experience of dreaming is much like thumbing through to one’s favorite moments in no particular order and therefore as a whole Ananku betrays its efforts at thematic unity. The forces behind Serpent Ascending make a noticed use of genre firmament however indecisive haste fashioned for itself a fallen world.

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“Entrance” Posted From Serpent Ascending’s Upcoming Ananku

by Daniel Maarat on August 5, 2016

I, Voidhanger Records premiered the first songs off of Serpent Ascending‘s upcoming Ananku on SoundCloud and shill blog No Clean Singing today. “Entrance” lyrics feature stanzas from William Blake’s poem “The Earth’s Answer”.

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Serpent Ascending’s Aṇaṅku Out September 16th

by Daniel Maarat on August 4, 2016

Serpent Ascending announced that their debut album Aṇaṅku is going to be released by I, Voidhanger Records on September 16th. Serpent Ascending is the solo-project of Desecresy vocalist Jarno Nurmi and previously released two extremely promising demos, Serrpent Ascending and The Mournful Pilgrimage, that were compiled with one new track in The Enigma Unsettled anthology CD. From the label’s press release:

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