There is no bluesy-swing or rock ‘n’ roll swagger in what PRIMITIVE MAN do. Theirs is a bleak vision, which draws upon the techniques of death and doom metal to create loathsome long-form tracks, which often turn to violence and anger in a red flash. These expectations are soon confirmed in opening track The Lifer, which bludgeons its listener with low and slow riffs before blending into the sparse Entity without further ado. In spite of what the album’s title promises, no attempt is made to ease the listener into Immersion’s ruthless atmosphere.īearing the “gift” of immortality bestowed to him by the God’s sword, a lone knight trudges across the land, snow crunching beneath his feet with every heavy, weary step. After witnessing the death of the sun and thus all life on Earth perishing, he’s left with no choice but to travel the frozen lands alone, forcing him to recall painful memories of the loss of those he loved, forever trapped under miles upon miles of ice. Now that‘s a hefty premise for a debut album, and it would take an equally hefty delivery to even give it a whiff of justice. But Atramentus, the Canadian funeral doom act consisting of members of Chthe’ilist, Funebrarum, and Gevurah (among others), spent a good length of time, constructing this album’s premise as far back as the band’s formation in 2012. Stygian is the end result of their labor.Īnd over the course of just three songs totaling over 45 minutes, they most certainly laid down one of the heaviest pieces of funeral doom I’ve heard in a long time. The two bookends of the album provide the bulk of Stygian‘s considerable length, clocking in at a whopping 40 minutes of top-shelf funeral doom. Opening with a mournful harpsichord, “Stygian I: From Tumultuous Heavens… (Descended Forth the Ceaseless Darkness)”1 lurches menacingly forward, darkening your mood with an onslaught of heavy riffs by Claude Leduc and Phil Tougas (both Chthe’ilist), with Tougas growling, howling, and chanting in forlorn agony.
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