The Snowbringer Cult

by Isengrind / TwinSisterMoon / Natural Snow Buildings

The Snowbringer Cult cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: April 2008
  • Label: Students of Decay
  • Country: France
  • Length: 2:35:00
  • Community rating: 3.95/5 from 6 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Functioning as a massive split album showcasing the solo aliases of the Natural Snow Buildings duo (Mehdi Ameziane and Solange Gularte) alongside a collaborative disc. The four-CD release is an overwhelming plunge into lo-fi, ritualistic acoustic drones, terrifying tape hiss, and archaic folk instrumentation that evokes ancient pagan witchcraft. It is widely revered as a staggering, immersive masterpiece of the modern European freak-folk underground.

Genres

Descriptors: Folk, Avant Garde, ritualistic, lo-fi, forest, atmospheric, droning, minimal, experimental, folk, traditional, ambient, nature

Tracklist

  1. From Icy Lands (1:18)
  2. To Ride with H枚lle (6:09)
  3. Skull Ornaments (4:16)
  4. His Winterbed (6:37)
  5. Cat's Cradle (2:16)
  6. Wooden False Face (5:30)
  7. Sun Disk Wand (2:03)
  8. Anima Sola (6:34)
  9. Amantsokan (5:18)
  10. The Spears of the Wolf (2:53)
  11. Order of the Dreamt (5:36)
  12. Spells (8:24)
  13. Water Barrier (2:09)
  14. Bones Memories (9:56)
  15. Kingdom of the Sea (2:18)
  16. Understars (4:09)
  17. Resurrect Dead on Planet Six (5:34)
  18. Bear Hunting (3:59)
  19. Ongon's Rattle (5:48)
  20. Inuk's Song (8:12)
  21. Snowbringer Cult (11:52)
  22. Nieve Sacra (3:10)
  23. Gone (3:46)
  24. Salt Signs (8:15)
  25. The Desert Has Eyes (12:15)
  26. They Do Not Come Knocking There Anymore (16:28)

Credits

  • Isengrind - primary artist
  • TwinSisterMoon - primary artist
  • Natural Snow Buildings - primary artist
  • Solange Gularte - artwork, performer
  • Mehdi Ameziane - performer

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