The music delivered here is one solid exploration in subterranean micro-genres which navigate through deeply ominous blackened drones to ambient isolationism and eerie ambient soundscapes that float and oscillate into one infernal void.
Cavernous, spacey, and industrial wall of sounds
NERATERRÆ is a young cinematic dark ambient project hailing from Italy and run by Alessio Antoni. Judging by the number of participants for the first chapter as well as for this new one, I’m constrained to consider this project more like a Cyclic Law family reunion.
Still not very clear for me who is doing what so let’s consider the project and album for what they are: one musical ensemble devoted to cavernous, spacey, and industrial wall of sounds with evocative and cinematic qualities. The conceptual line of Scenes From The Sublime is supposed to be a kind of worship and personal dedication to great masters of the art, from classical to contemporary. The selected names are quite suggestive and renown, thus there are no artists you will really discover or see as unexpected.
Nonetheless the music delivered here is one solid exploration in subterranean micro-genres which navigate through deeply ominous blackened drones to ambient isolationism and eerie ambient soundscapes that float and oscillate into one infernal void. The ten movements are equally good, well crafted and dense, featuring acclaimed artists such as Shrine, Phelios, Phragments—members of the post-industrial music league, from death ambient to soothing space ambient realms.
All in all and with its coloring, mutable, incremental movements and dark wanders—Scenes From The Sublime is one qualified and recommended album for fans of deep and resonant ambient music.
Scenes From the Sublime is available on Cyclic Law.
