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BELLWITCH and AERIAL RUIN- “Stygian Bough Volume 2”
BELLWITCH and AERIAL RUIN- “Stygian Bough Volume 2”
By Octopi Mills
Here we have another release by Profound Lore, and in the form of musical collaboration, not a split, that in fact derives its name from the James Frazer book of the same name. What brought this about; who truly knows? This is “Volume 2” and I missed the boat on “Volume One” so I must treat it as a new ordeal.
"Waves Became the Sky" is the first track, long running and mournful, sounding like an old doom metal song, bare with some atmosphere in its starkness. "King of the Wood" rays around some beams like sunlight, cracking through brooding clouds. The vocals have a lost in the wilderness, forsaken feel, seeming at times naked and vulnerable.... weak and sick. Gray, colorless emotions radiate melancholy, misery. I gaze at the album cover. For a moment I wonder about the human condition and that disease I always speak of; the disease to be an artist. There is somehow a vintage feel, and somewhat of a feel of the Middle Ages, though it is such a faint trace as to not be mentioned.
"From Dominion" is another long running one, as is the next and the whole feel of the album is permeated in every song, which is not doom metal at all in most instances. "The Told and the Leadened" is the final song, slow and knelling as always was the feel, the whole time. In some ways this album could give a man the dark blues, and perhaps becomes self-indulgent in its intentions. The calming effect it has could perhaps be beneficial, but I cannot imagine it being played live.
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