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Descending through the darkness, a bat-like creature arrives from an outerworld beyond all human knowledge; Mortiis, a horribly disfigured being brings forth "The Stargate", a conceptual tale that transcends all time and space. Foregoing an Emperor's return, Mortiis is a dreadful portrayal that plays upon our greatest fears and stretches the boundaries of imagination in an ongoing quest for knowledge that sometimes takes us to the edge and back again. A darkly constructed opera engulfed in mystical chants, grandiose in nature, drawing upon apprehension as its greatest ambition as we're transported toward a mind-bending odyssey that we're not yet prepared for. To say Mortiis has gone South with relation to his past would be grossly misleading and yet much of what we find on "The Stargate" is not unlike the principal structure of where other such lords of the blackened realm go to evoke their demons. A black soundscape, built firmly on the ancient Taoist tradition, scarcely built on words, strongly methodic in purpose to reach its ends. An Autumn hymnal designed to leave a lasting impression, scarring the senses of the realist, frozen in shadows for several moments in time, "The Stargate" is a supernatural soundtrack that plants the listener firmly in a state of inertia until a heightened sense of awareness is reached and thus "The Stargate". Released by Earache Records
Limited. Review by Vinnie Apicella. |