Frankly, it can’t be all happy and sunny all the time, right? Now – back to darkness!
I’m always very excited to write about metal and especially the extreme genres of it – probably part of it is the fact that I started in music journalism back in 2008 covering black and death metal shows.
“Arisen Upon Oblivion” – the new record of Texas-based avant-garde black metal project Unfanthomed of Abyss is a product of 14 years of hard work! The result is dark and slow, layering doom-y, complicated and somehow even progressive structures over your ear buds.
The man behind the project – Kevin Price – describes the album as “an imaginative view into the cosmos that constantly changes from the chaotic to the serene dirge.” Whittled down from approximately three hours of material compiled during the past decade and a half, Arisen Upon Oblivion features heavily layered
polyphonic music that represents Price’s desire to “mentally reassemble and spew upon the world the horror, the malevolence, and the majesty of the universe.”
Arisen Upon Oblivion is essentially a one-man show: Price was responsible for the guitars, bass, musical arrangements, vocals, engineering, and album artwork. Kevin Talley played the drums on Arisen Upon Oblivion, while the record was engineered by Orlando Villasenor and mastered by Tom Kvålsvoll
(Emperor) at Strype Audio.
More about this really interesting dark piece of art can be found on Bandcamp, Facebook and the official website unfathomedofabyss.com .
