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Shockingly accomplished and self-assured, this debut will hopefully pave the way for countless riches for years to come. At present a one-man effort (though looking to bolster the ranks, it seems), Cathis Ord hails from the United Kingdom and rains down peals of torrential melancholy in riff after riff. The usual suspects make themselves heard, for sure: mid-period Opeth, post-mod Katatonia, young turks like Insomnium and Daylight Dies, et al. Prog and death and doom and folk and so on and so forth in whatever parsed subgenre permutations you desire. All that matters is that both of the eleven-minute songs here absolutely rule, written like papal bulls, performed like nuclear fission and produced like a David Lean film. There’s really not much more to say other than to proffer that it’s a goddamn privilege to hear and review a project like this so early on. I bear in mind the very reasonable notion that this record’s auteur could try on any number of brilliant new ideas, get signed in the process, tour the East Coast of the US, sample exquisite madeira and sexually bookend some supplicant female member of the haute bourgeoisie with yours truly, by virtue of the fact that I scribbled a few lines of approval way back when.
| Tracklist |
| 1. Lost Empire |
| 2. As Winter Lays Its Seige |
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| Buy other Cathis Ord albums |
