This maelstrom of cavernous dark reverbs, rumbling, blurred melodies, menacing, organic undulating drones, and ominous cinematic soundscapes can make a perfect background score while reading terrific mythical fantasy novels by Clark Ashton Smith, Austin Osman Spare’s occult philosophy, or even Macpherson’s skaldic Ossian epic poetry. Fans of early Lustmord, Yen Pox, Parhelion or Svarstinn won’t be disappointed.
With Alphaxone, Xerxes The Dark is one champion of modern days subterranean and isolationist dark ambient music on the Iranian territory. His name is partly associated with Cryo Chamber musical production thanks to many collaborative albums but his blasting cinematic industrial sound sculptures are also for a large part self-released (or signed by small net-labels around) and available on the Bandcamp’s page of the project. Xerxes The Dark’s usual sound-signature admits a dense, burgeoning, spooky, and moodily introspective orchestration based on a vast array of electronic treatments and sampled noise sequences. For those who are not familiar with Persian religion and with the cultural patrimony of this civilization (conceptual background behind this album), Tower Of Silence musical odyssey can lead the mind and imagination of the listener to wide range of destinations. To my humble opinion this maelstrom of cavernous dark reverbs, rumbling, blurred melodies, menacing, organic undulating drones, and ominous cinematic soundscapes can make a perfect background score while reading terrific mythical fantasy novels by Clark Ashton-Smith, Austin Osman Spare’s occult philosophy, or even Macpherson’s skaldic Ossian epic poetry. Fans of early Lustmord, Yen Pox, Parhelion or Svarstinn won’t be disappointed.
Tower of Silence is available on Zāl.
