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Bands    CD Reviews     Live Reviews    Interviews    Labels    Genres       Hieros-Gamos << Back With ‘Hieros-Gamos’, Black Seas Of Infinity made their fourth album on cd and also their fourth for Autumn Wind Productions. The music of Black Seas Of Infinity is very ritual in nature, and here is no different. The album has “4 compositions glorifying the marriage of gods and men. It is the dissemination of the secret art as bequeathed unto mankind by the fallen...In magnificent copulations the mysteries are revealed... All of the explorations on this release are accompanied by live ritual invocations.” So their you have a kind of description of the feel and theme of this album. Although the album has only four tracks, two of them are almost half an hour in length, so the totality of the album is still around 71 minutes. The first piece, ‘Iblis Hiwwah Kassia’, is one of those long tracks. Very dark and ritualistic in sound. It also uses spoken words to a good and sometimes creepy effect. The next track, ‘All Hail The Procession Of Masks’, is shorter, just under 6 minutes. The track is less spherical than the previous one and more industrial tinted. The spoken words also continues. ‘I Hu Tubalo’ is again one of the long songs. The songs starts with some deep sounds and effects. Here and there some high frequencies are used and some tribal drumming. It feels as if you’re really walking in some Lovecraft like realm! The last track is the shortest, but has the longest title, ‘Thy Secret Shall Stain The Heart Of The Ekstasis (Aleim Edam)’. It’s very different in sound, less a soundscape and more of an experimental song, with what sounds like some distorted guitar sounds that are processed to have an electronic feel. But I might be wrong. All in al, a very interesting album. If you like dark ritualistic soundscapes when reading stories of H.P. Lovecraft, this is the soundtrack to it. The last track seems a little bit out of place with what came before, but it makes for a nice difference. A very fine album! Band: Black Seas of Infinity(int) Label: Autumn Wind Productions Genre: ambient (ambient / soundscapes / ritual / drones) Type: cd Grade: 7.9 Review by: Fabian Website: http://www.myspace.com/blackseasofinfinity 0 replies Discuss this