Witching Hour - Where Pale Winds Take Them High... - VINYL LP

Closet Witch - Chiaroscuro [VINYL LP] Colored Vinyl date 01/12/2024

A futuristic concept album that reads almost like a Marxist allegory... weaving intricately wrought progressive passages into a crushingly heavy framework that owes as much to Meshuggah as Dream Theater. Metal Maniacs. Long hailed as a masterpiece of progressive/technical metal, Zero Hour's The Towers Of AvariceInch has been the cornerstone of prog collections since it's 2001 . Sensory is pleased to make it available on vinyl for the first time. The album was cut for vinyl from the original pre-mastered recording for maximum dynamics. Zero Hour's influences range from the dark brooding power of Fates Warning to the intricate technicality of Spiral Architect and Meshuggah. The band features twin brothers Jasun and Troy Tipton on guitars and bass, drummer Mike Guy, and vocalist Erik Rosvold. The Towers Of AvariceInch is a bleak futuristic conceptual work reminiscent of Blade Runner. The story tells the tale of two societies - one above ground obsessed with consumption and the restl.

On Stygian Bough Volume II, the collaboration between Bell Witch (Dylan Desmond, Jesse Shreibman) and Aerial Ruin (Erik Moggridge) enlivens it's unbodied presence resembling both collaborating projects as a conduit in it's own separate entity. In the course of an hour, four musical pieces set themselves apart from the catalogs of both individual bands and branch into new territory all the while threaded to the original encounter. Over the album a cyclical world unfolds in which different perspectives of how various forms of worship empower, eclipse, destroy and feed on each other is explored.InchWaves Became The Sky,Inch the opening track on Volume II, recalls InchRows (Of Endless Waves)Inch from Bell Witch's debut album Longing. It was here that Bell Witch and Aerial Ruin had initial contact, while InchKing Of The Wood,Inch quickly lurks into an abyss death-doom fans of Thergothon and My Dying Bride will find familiarity in. Track three, InchFrom Dominion,Inch opens to the power trio resembling the elements of Aerial Ruin's dark folk temperaments. With a voice one can imagine emerging from some forgotten dimension in ancient Albion, Moggridge pulls thread as much enchantment as song. InchThe Told And The Leadened,Inch the album's closer and longest track clocking in at just over nineteen minutes, is about the cycles of power and how they eclipse and prop each other up.The result is a commanding four songs steeped in mysticism, legend, and the examination of the connective threads that shape and influence the culture, mythology, and customs of all human societies throughout time in unique, localized ways.