Apostle of Solitude - Until The Darkness Goes - VINYL LP

Limited grape colored vinyl LP pressing. Eat Your Heart Out embrace change on their sophomore album, Can't Stay Forever. Released in 2022 on Fearless Records, the Newcastle, Australia quintet channel emo spirit through precise instrumentation with just the right amount of pop appeal. Album Tracks 1. Forget Me 2. Down 3. Scissors in My Skin 4. Twenty Something 5. Heavenly 6. Hostage 1. Blood 2. Sour 3. Poison Devotion 4. Deep End 5. Headfirst

Gatefold double LP (black vinyl), padded inner sleeves, and protection sleeve. There is hardly a more fitting title for the new Xasthur compositions than InchInevitably DarkInch. Darkness is the element that holds all the tracks together despite the fact that they are expressed in a multitude of genres, which even includes black metal. This time. Be warned this album is neither meant as a return to black metal of mastermind Scott Conner, even though he does this time, nor a guarantee that it will happen again next time - although, he might. Conner has used black metal, dark ambient, acid folk, doomgrass, and other genres to express what he has seen and felt, as well as a way to find his own sound or style at a point in time - for example when he was without a steady home and often living in hotels or cars. His insights into the underbelly of the American dream are reflected in the lyrics of InchInevitably DarkInch, which are there even though there is no singing on the album. Conner recorded all the tracks of InchInevitably DarkInch live and by himself, which might make it sound coarse to modern ears, but it is just the grit and stain of unfiltered reality. Xasthur were originally conceived by vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Scott Conner in California, USA in the year 1995. The project started out in the vein of bleak black metal in the tradition of the Nordic second wave. Over the course of nine albums and a host of split-singles, EPs, and occasional demos, Xasthur's individual, particularly depressive style became highly regarded within the extreme genre. In 2010, Scott announced the end of Xasthur and returned with an acoustic dark folk project under the banner of NOCTURNAL POISONING. In 2015, the American artist returned to the name Xasthur, but insisted that his black metal days were over. With InchInevitably DarkInch, Xasthur have partly lifted the self-impo

High Roller Records, black vinyl, ltd 200, 425gsm heavy cardboard cover, insert, printed inner sleeve, 2 posters, A5 photo, mastered for vinyl by Patrick W. Engel at Temple of Disharmony, original 1984 sound