Stygian

by Atramentus

Stygian cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 21 August 2020
  • Label: 20 Buck Spin
  • Country: Canada
  • Length: 44:40
  • Community rating: 3.68/5 from 5 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Conceived entirely by extreme metal polymath Phil Tougas, this project delivers a crushingly heavy, three-track exploration of funeral doom metal. The conceptual narrative concerns a lone knight forced to walk a frozen, eternally dark earth, perfectly mirrored by the glacially slow tempos and agonizing vocal shrieks. It is a masterful, deeply cinematic exercise in creating suffocating atmospheric dread.

Genres

Descriptors: atmospheric, conceptual, funereal, long-form, minimalistic

Tracklist

  1. Stygian I: From Tumultuous Heavens… (Descended Forth the Ceaseless Darkness) (16:28)
  2. Stygian II: In Ageless Slumber (As I Dream in the Doleful Embrace of the Howling Black Winds) (4:54)
  3. Stygian III: Perennial Voyage (Across the Perpetual Planes of Crying Frost & Steel-Eroding Blizzards) (23:17)

Credits

  • Atramentus - primary artist
  • Mariusz Lewandowski - artwork [album cover], illustration
  • Charles Benoit - artwork [original logo]
  • Antoine Daigneault - bass [five-stringed cerulean chasm convulsions]
  • Claude Leduc - guitar [six-stringed glacial blood-steel intonations]
  • François Bilodeau - synthesizer [synthetized threnodies], cello [spectral harmonies], effects [dismal atmospheric vibrations], music by, arranged by [additional arrangements]
  • Philippe Tougas - Music By, Lyrics By, Written-By [Outro], Engineer [Outro]

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