Wormlust "Svarthol" & "The Opium Sleep"

Another fantastic pieces from the defunct but always wonderful icelandic corpse, Wormlust. I've talked about this band previously here on FxC, you can check it out here and here. If you're into high quality Black Metal i totally recommend this band to you. The atmosphere created by Wormlust is just mind blowing, almost transcendental. Simply the best material in this genre i've ever heard in my life. So, in order to complete Wormlust's discography i bring you today its final breath, "Svarthol" from 2010 and "The Opium Sleep" from last year. Sadly, there's only one track to each Demo. "Svarthol" is a fabulous 16 minute track of the most brilliant atmospheric Black Metal, the sound production is very good and after hearing the whole piece it just makes me mad that a band like this had to end... why?? I curse you H.V Lyngdal, from the day you came out of your mother's womb. Why did you had to make such brilliant music as Wormlust and then left us, wandering blinded in the dark by your magnificent hymns in this dying world of illusion? Guess we will never know the answer. "The Opium Sleep" is strictly an ambient/instrumental track, clearly the last expiring breath of air coming out from Wormlust. It's the perfect soundtrack if you were the last person left alone on this cursed land. They say every genius has touch of madness. But don't we all? Highly Recommended.

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Wormlust

"Iceland's Wormlust was Hafsteins Lyngdal's latest outburst within the realm of extreme music, he now plays in Pestuus, another cold Anti-Christianity Black Metal act. But Wormlust was a project he seemed to be most involved in. Wormlust effortlessly knits together a soundscape, a journey if you will, that has an engaging beginning, and a natural and fulfilling conclusion. In this "Seven Paths" Demo, its haunting and atmospheric qualities, jump at you at first and hook in you but repeated listens will reveal successful layering that makes this such a powerful and cohesive piece.

"Seven Paths" is quite good as all material released by Wormlust. The guitars are churning vortices of disturbing chords, and whenever the sound breaks for some sort of interlude we are treated with introspective guitar work and ringing explorations and Lyngdal's vocals are hoarse and troubling, like the cold icelandic wind whispering thru the desolated fields. I've been exposed to a great many underground black metal acts touting atmosphere or ambience, but Wormlust, thru its originality,  has really caught my attention. Something enigmatically wicked is burrowing to the surface here."

Seven Paths of Desolation

Wormlust & Haud Mundus

Now this has become my latest drug. The split release "Oblivio Appositus" of irish Haud Mundus and Icelandic Wormlust is difficult to put into words. 

"Haud Mundus presents insight into the failed spirit of man, while Wormlust offers an indescribable passage into otherworldly desolation. This collaboration between both sees its share of atmospheric metal riffing and long, beautiful passages of ambiance.

Haud Mundus's two tracks are quite magnificent examples of the balance possible between the black and ambient genres. "Veins of Stone" is over 13 minutes, opening with a cavernous cacophony of morbid gloom and ringing hammer-like strikes, from which a slicing, huge guitar tone soon erupts, and becomes even huger as the duo lumbers through a number of devious, crashing poles. "Forever Desiccate the Seed" is briefer, at around 8 minutes, but its also denser and faster, more of a traditional black metal at first, then branching out into a number of ambient segues. The production used by Haud Mundus is massive and accessible, a sure sign that the band could be taken very seriously in the future. 

Wormlust, too, has adopted a more bold if calamitous sense for production. Truly, this is a frightening experience, Lyngdal's full, bloodied throat casting a ghastly pallor over the surging threads of "Surge - About the Death of a God" and the dusky, swelling phantasm that is "The Larvean Inauguration (Or: A Feast for the Animal of Reflection)"."

Also the artwork for "Oblivio Appositus" is beautiful. Be the privileged one to own not only this beautiful Digipack but a splendid piece of sonic art here. One of the best BM releases i heard so far, although it's release is from 2009(!). Highly Recommended!

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