Moviola - Earthbound - VINYL LP

Album Tracks 1. Earthbound 2. Ghosts of the Dead 3. Conjuration 4. Law of Nature 5. 13th Moon 6. Phoenix Ascending 7. Bleed Your Soul 8. Queen of the Underworld 9. Bear Cult 10. Barren Land 11. Rite of Passage

The uncompromising entity Tome of the Unreplenished is finally releasing their most anticipated album to date, Earthbound. This unique project has been undoubtedly pushing the boundaries of musical progression, experimenting with radical, brutal, and unforgiving sounds, but yet, their serene and grandiose approach is always the entities main distinguished essence.

Pillars I slithered under my radar upon it's first , and it was a glorious thing to miss. Their rich, atmospheric black metal bubbled like brooks and whistled through the leafy branches of a dense, warm forest. It was dense, long-winded, and synthesizer heavy, moving with tremendous footsteps and a wide breadth. Yes, Earth and Pillars was green, and a very earthy one at that. Two years later, this Italian unit returns with Earth II, and I was shocked at the sheer temperature difference, but even moreso at how successfully they retained their identity while doing so. Where Earth I felt like a living, growing thing, Pillars I is much more structured, as if it was man-made. Though still mammoth and heavy in atmosphere, these four new tracks are aggressive and menacing, but most of all they appear grey and border on complete barrenness. Lifelessness and grey emptiness are new territory for Earth and Pillars, and yet they more than manage, and with a newfound sense of momentum. The lengthy ambient passages from it's predecessor still make grand appearances, but the humid feeling is replaced with dreadful desolation, and their once ecstatic, flowery black metal normalizes and condenses. In a metaphoric sense, Earth and Pillars clear cut the verdant forest they grew in Earth I and built large, looming, lifeless monoliths in Pillars I. In the end, it's still the same band, but rearranged and reinvented, which makes this grey a more unique parallel to Earth and Pillar's originally connoted green. Album Tracks 1. Becoming 2. Falling 1. Ascending 2. Howling