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This is dark ambient music almost at its best. I’d play this album as background music in a horror film. It isn’t intense in a brutal way, but the music builds and sounds very creepy. The piano provides an eerie setting. While the female vocals give the atmospheric music some tranquillity. Without the vocals the overall sound is deep in the depths of evil industrial trance. This is music in nature, very orchestrated and grows naturally. Long dark passages of quiet hymns, and repeated notes. To hear it completely your stereo should be louder than normal, otherwise you don’t get the full effect; the impact won’t hit you. Trippy as fuck. Very emotional, I also like the demented laughs during Nox Intempesta. Only 111 copies of this album have been released, and I feel very fortunate to have listened to “In Lasting Joy, of Slowly Dying”. My only problem is that even though I thoroughly enjoy each and every song, it takes the entire album before the volume is turned up. With “Mente Concipio” ending the album, it’s the loudest track, while still being very quiet. Reminds me of early Swans, and is the best song on the album.
| Tracklist |
| 1. A Sleeping Box |
| 2. Agnellus (Cur facis pecari?) |
| 3. The First Sleep (Solitudo) |
| 4. "The Fall And Embrace" |
| 5. Bells |
| 6. Nox Intempesta |
| 7. "The Crashing Of Spheres" |
| 8. Mente Concipio |
: 41.14
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