Perils

by Miasma and The Carousel of Headless Horses

Perils cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 12 April 2005
  • Label: Web of Mimicry
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 44:54
  • Community rating: 3.79/5 from 6 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Released on Trey Spruance's Web of Mimicry imprint, the London instrumental collective weaves a labyrinth of terrifying, circus-like avant-prog. By blending classical chamber instrumentation鈥攍ike violin and glockenspiel鈥攚ith extreme metal distortion and erratic time signatures, the album cultivates an overwhelming atmosphere of cinematic dread and suspense.

Genres

Descriptors: Avant Garde, dissonant, instrumental, progressive, complex, avant-garde, experimental, theatrical, eccentric, conceptual

Tracklist

  1. Blackening: Crows Templar
  2. The Mage
  3. Peacock The Heretic
  4. Perilous Fathoms
  5. Rabbits Foot
  6. Whitening: Foxes Templar
  7. Gypsy Funeral: Hark! From The Tombs A Doleful Sound
  8. The Pale Staircase
  9. Iridescence: Peacocks Tail
  10. Asmodius Arise
  11. Reddening: Blood Of The Pelican
  12. The Optician
  13. Ouroboros: Phoenix Rising

Credits

  • Miasma and The Carousel of Headless Horses - primary artist, composed by
  • Cathy Ward - artwork by [cover artwork]
  • David Ledden - bass
  • Dave Smith - drums, percussion
  • Sarah Measures - flute
  • Orlando Harrison - piano, organ, glockenspiel
  • Sara Hubrich - violin, viola

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