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Doom experimentalists Völur from Toronto and San Francisco's ever-mercurial neo-classical ambient collective Amber Asylum team up for the split InchBreaker Of Rings/Blood Witch.Inch Both artists are driven by the vision of creating dark and heavy music built around the use of strings, yet differ in approach while beautifully complimenting one another on this . On the a-side, Völur tell a story of alienation and trauma, a warrior's introspective hell and disability to resonate with a reality past battle. Expanding their style into radical musical niches such as funeral doom and 12-tone music, the tracks are inspired by Inchthe Niflung cycle from the Poetic Edda, the aftermath of battles and the toll violence takes on the psyches of alleged heroesInch according to bass player and singer Lucas Gadke. The material was originally conceived as one track for the trio's first album InchAncestorsInch (2017) but shelved Inchdue to it's length and energy. The middle contains a piece written for a string quartet in the style of Alban Berg.Inch Thus, InchBreaker Of RingsInch places the band somewhere between funeral doom and a horror movie soundtrack. Amber Asylum's b-side is a morbidly beautiful story of disease and it's victim, initiated by penetration of a female mosquito as the metaphorical InchBlood Witch.Inch Surrealistic string arrangements and voices of eerie presence enriched by relentless analog synths are painting distinctive images of discomfort and beauty, delirium and devotion, anguish and ultimate acceptance. Band leader Kris Force says the four songs are based on Inchearly 20th century Indian love lyrics and feature performances by Grayceon's Jackie Perez Gratz on cello as well as bassist Erica Stoltz from Sanhedrin. I wanted to create something in my own voice yet sharing the same vibration as Völur's side of the split.Inch In true Prophecy spirit, InchBreaker
