Nerthus :: The Path of the Elder Ones (Eighth Tower)

Clashing noises, odd scintillations, cavernous echoes, and granular moves insidiously come to the fore to enthrall or ravish the listener in an intoxicated and poisoned tellurian or subterranean ambiguousness.

A sense of cinematic depth

Devoted to adventurous and challenging music with a fancy for chilling soundscapes, bleak sound art and creeping atmospheric tapes, Eighth Tower Records welcomes a new complex and immersive album by Nerthus. Nerthus has been engaged in the universe of dark ambient and moody-esque drone/noise music since a handful of year with notable releases for Mdira and Art Konkret. His new forlorn and ghostly reverbed soundtrack album titled The Path of the Elder Ones drives the listener in Lovecraftian’s sonic and shifting abyss. This gloomy and opaque sounding excursion also indirectly summons supernatural worlds and odd folkish-haunting mythologies of Clark Ashton Smith.

Clashing noises, odd scintillations, cavernous echoes, and granular moves insidiously come to the fore to enthrall or ravish the listener in an intoxicated and poisoned tellurian or subterranean ambiguousness. A languid cinematic tale for electro-acoustic timbres, mirroring alien and post-human tragic moods. All in all, The Path of the Elder Ones projects imagination, compositional, and dystopian images as well as a sense of cinematic depth. Recommended for fans of Endvra, Tvlpa, Gruntsplatter, Kranvim, Wilt, Tumulus Seraphim, and parallel dark-rumbling electronics mixed with contemplative eeriness.

The Path of the Elder Ones is available on Eighth Tower. [Bandcamp]