Trumpet of Amdusias

  Somewhere deep in a cavern the size of a continent a single guitar howls a buzzsaw of anguish. Discordant high-hats reverberate off the slick wet walls. Deep below, lava roils ceaselessly, making every step perilous. Welcome back to the void. Hallucinations of destruction and decay abound here. This is not nice music for nice people. This is not-nice music for not-nice people. Is this nerdy prog metal? Math-Death? What exactly is going on here? Dunno, but it's got a shit ton of atmosphere, so who cares! Vacuum γ-Noise Transition by DSKNT

In 2021, I am going to try to give you an album a day to listen to. Each one will be an album that I enjoy enough to have in my collection. I'll talk a little about the album, maybe the band (though I am notorious for not really caring too much about the people behind the music), and whatever thing(s) the album causes me to free associate or riff on.  Let's start this project with one of the more interesting experimental black metal album of 2020, Twixt Zero and Infinity by Crown of Ascension . Presumably named after a Magic the Gathering card, Crown of Ascension is a new project from Alexander White , whose previous work with Vessel of Iniquity and Uncertainty Principle (among others) are also worth checking out. This is a solid, maybe even excellent, atmospheric black metal album. Riffs, drums, everything, is in the service of creating the atmosphere.  Ghostly shrieks soaking in a vat of reverb; cardboard gunshot drums; guitars and keyboards in sync, creating something t...