Within the Depths of Silence and Phormations

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Peter Andersson's highly influential dark ambient project reached an absolute creative zenith with this deeply sorrowful, intensely atmospheric masterwork. The remarkably desolate compositions flawlessly layer heavily pitch-shifted Gregorian chants, mournful church bells, and incredibly sparse, chilling synthesizer drones. It stands as a defining, deeply reverential pillar of the 1990s European post-industrial scene, evoking the terrifying isolation of a ruined medieval cathedral.

Genres

  • Dark Ambient

Tracklist

  1. Sephiroth
  2. Ascent of the Blessed
  3. In Absence of Subsequent Ambivalence
  4. Fall of the Damned
  5. Euphrosyne
  6. Inner Depths of Sadness
  7. Of Dying Relics
  8. Dreams Essence
  9. Intrinsic Reason I
  10. Intrinsic Reason II
  11. Wisdom of Withhold
  12. Saivo I (the kingdom of the dead)
  13. Saivo II
  14. In Emptiness
  15. Saifeiod (extended version)