In their thirteenth sonic transmission, Canadian duo Starcave Nebula cast yet another glimmering shard of spectral sound into the vast black, titled "Asterism". This cosmic artefact is a testament to their enduring commitment to charting the hinterlands of lo-fi black metal, now with glistening trails of jazz-imbued improvisation and noise-drenched abstraction.
The first track, "Asterism in Phlogopite", appears as a half-remembered dream of distant galaxies, swaying with a peculiar groove, a lo-fi pulse simultaneously hypnotic and untamed, as an otherworldly jam session suspended in vacuum, its notes drifting weightless, neither tethered to tradition nor shackled by clarity.
Then, with "Star Sapphire" the veil grows darker and more viscous. This track shows a more sombre, contemplative descent into black metal’s cavernous marrow, textured like scorched velvet, while dark ambient motifs and noise surges clash and coalesce in a struggle for celestial dominance. A glacial duality emerges: one of rawness and atmospheric blackeness, of entropy and astral yearning, as if composing a love letter to the cosmic void, written in collapsing stars.
The fusion of styles is unapologetically arcane, black metal reduced to its most primitive frequency, then rebuilt with alien intuition, not as genre pastiche but as gravitational anomalies, distorting the album’s orbit and inviting listeners to lose their bearings.
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In their thirteenth sonic transmission, Canadian duo Starcave Nebula cast yet another glimmering shard of spectral sound into the vast black, titled "Asterism". This cosmic artefact is a testament to their enduring commitment to charting the hinterlands of lo-fi black metal, now with glistening trails of jazz-imbued improvisation and noise-drenched abstraction.
The first track, "Asterism in Phlogopite", appears as a half-remembered dream of distant galaxies, swaying with a peculiar groove, a lo-fi pulse simultaneously hypnotic and untamed, as an otherworldly jam session suspended in vacuum, its notes drifting weightless, neither tethered to tradition nor shackled by clarity.
Then, with "Star Sapphire" the veil grows darker and more viscous. This track shows a more sombre, contemplative descent into black metal’s cavernous marrow, textured like scorched velvet, while dark ambient motifs and noise surges clash and coalesce in a struggle for celestial dominance. A glacial duality emerges: one of rawness and atmospheric blackeness, of entropy and astral yearning, as if composing a love letter to the cosmic void, written in collapsing stars.
The fusion of styles is unapologetically arcane, black metal reduced to its most primitive frequency, then rebuilt with alien intuition, not as genre pastiche but as gravitational anomalies, distorting the album’s orbit and inviting listeners to lose their bearings.
Cassette available through Wolfkult Religion.
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