earth to rupture and split, to spill its scorching seed.
call forth fire to devour.
call forth wind to strangle.
call forth tides to seize and engulf, drown all life in its ebb and flow.
hail the celestial tides of destruction.
hail the solar winds to drain like parasites.
hail the night sky whose stars scowl toward all corners of the universe.
their grimacing light brings death to distant and adjacent worlds.
conjuring chaos without end
by elemental enchantment, with cathartic intentions supreme.
hooded rider of the skies, keymaster to all worlds, manipulator of fates.
wandering the astral plane,
deconstructing fibers of universal grain.
leading the winged serpent, behemoth rides into the infinite vast void.
his hand channels bombardment and life destroyed.
suns collide in merged power,
behold extinction's final hour.
Swirling guitars, furious drums, vocals that at the same time howl from infinite distance and are right up in your head; everything put into dissonant form with the help of unconventional songwriting. This album is my personal key to the icelanding black metal madness that I've ignored for way too long! Lukas Kaufmann
PSA: if there was an album you heard a couple years ago and thought it was ok, listen to it again and you might love it.
That's what happened to me with this album. I cannot fathom why it didn't stick with me back then. Same thing happened with Decoherence's Unitarity for that matter. Matten
Joseph Hawker subverts the musical and sociopolitical status quo with a black metal triptych that's as incendiary as it is impressionistic. Bandcamp New & Notable Jan 5, 2022
Absolutely apocalyptic atmospheric black metal full of towering, epic songs that stretch all the way out to the gloomy, misty horizon. Bandcamp New & Notable May 22, 2023
Mikolaj is a real multi-talent in bass as well as guitar as well as vocals and "Darkside" Maciej's drumming is a well-calibrated 100th-of-seconds-clockwork. Not for nothing is Mgla considered as a standard for a lot of other blacker-than-black metal bands. I hope to see this band live once..... grote_smurf