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PILLORIAN - the new band recently formed by Stephen Parker (Maestus/ex-Arkhum), John Haughm (ex-Agalloch), and Trevor Matthews (Uada/ex-Infernus), will release their debut album through Eisenwald in early 2017.

“Exploring the context of obscurity, Pillorian takes inspiration from blackened metal, dark folk, and avant-garde music. Adding something ancient that hovers within the music and its somber aura, it helps to fortify the group's audial scope in an unconventional way.” (http://www.eisenton.de/label/pure-arcane-art-pillorian-sign-with-eisenwald/)

The atmosphere of this song is the biggest strength of this song, but it is hard to capture in words. It’s as though you’ve been asleep for years, drifting through time and space, and wake to find a world parallel to your own, except it is cold and devoid of anything you used to know. You’re filled with an eerie sense of fear and wonder as The Skies Do Give Succor plays. There’s a great deal of prog in the guitar leads, and the underlying riffs are tinged with doom.  This pleasantly suspenseful atmosphere is present through the whole song, even when the brutal blackness Arkhum is known for comes in.

My review of Arkhum’s The Skies Do Give Succor will soon be posted here, as well as on encyclopedia metallum.

Listen/purchase: The Skies Do Give Succor by Arkhum

FRIENDS. 

On June 1st my band Arkhum will be releasing a new song. It’s a pre-production version of a track that’ll be on our new album that we’re recording this fall. While a good heap of you have started following me since Arkhum fell into the background, I hope you’ll all give her a listen when it’s available! 

Listen to: Bloodgutter Encircling (2011 Mix) by Arkhum