Spiritual growth is a continuous process of metamorphosis from one form to the next higher state of being. It is a process of constant death and rebirth. (How fitting that this review concludes on the date of Walpurgisnacht). One must embrace the destruction of each living manifestation to look towards any hope of evolution. Any […]

“There fell upon my ear the holiest sound I have ever heard,” recalled Huston Smith, describing the first time he experienced Tibetan overtone chants. Before 1967, the Western world was unaware of the practice, and to a large extent still are. Huston Smith, a US religious scholar on a visit to a Himalayan monastery in […]

There is something almost instantly mystical from the core of the sound on this cassette. It’s similar to a Tibetan brass bowl being struck. It’s similar to the call of the ram’s horn echoing over the Dead Sea. It’s just the thing to widely open your spiritual eye by crawling in through your ear canal […]

Circle inside another circle and both of them trapped in a third one. An endless chain of movement transmissions, an endless chain of sound. Like a tiny stone thrown into the immense ocean, you are penetrating layers and layers of fictional stasis, fictional as nothing is actually static or ordinary in our world. And nothing […]

Another strange release, this one.  Di Aima il Segno consists of music that, perhaps as hinted by the album cover, has been conjured forth by arcane spirits, or at the very least from some ethereal, Occidental shores where spirits gather in the mists, brandishing ancient instruments and resurrecting a compendium of archaic legend through poetry […]

“The Flesh Must Be Devoured And The Bones Crushed Before Your Soul May Enter The Realm Of My Sacred Temple” RxAxPxE have previously been reviewed on Heathen Harvest with their brilliant split cassette with Gnawed in 2012 on the Industrial Culture cassette label. They are an Occult Power Electronics outfit whom have been active since […]

As far as drone/experimental/ritual releases go, we’ve all become accustomed to the generalized, easily accessible sounds found within any given DAW or rack system.  It’s only expected, as this style or styles is certainly driven by the repetitive and evolving sounds available in wide variety.  When you partner this reality with any project’s first or […]

There are many perceptions about darkness. It is commonly viewed as the absence of light. Metaphorically, it has often represented ‘evil’ – the absence of good. However, in the world of Arktau Eos, darkness is perceived as the incomprehensible ‘Absolute Reality’. The Helixes Collective has constantly strived to understand their spiritual connection with the veiled reality. […]

Endessiah comes three years after Treha Sektori was unveiled through its debut full-length Sorieh – a mind-blowing sound experiment, which brought me on the verge of schizophrenia with its fragmented, chaotic and eclectic approach to sound. The second conceptual entity which Dehn Sora (also in Sembler Deah, Church of Ra) created is far more accomplished, […]

Ever since 2005, Finland’s Helixes Collective have been at the forefront of organic ritual ambient music. Amassed of several projects, it is Arktau Eos that has most set the benchmark for deep experimental ritual ambient. 2012 sees the release of not one but two albums from this vital cause, Ioh Maera and Unworeldes, released on […]