Metaconqueror : Of Steel, Bone, And Fire [2009]

This is the sort of sonic backdrop any syphilitic clergyman would have loved to have used to illustrate his bitter sermons with warning the good, malleable and trusting flock to stay on the straight and narrow. In other words, this is stirringly magnificent stuff, darkly unearthly and hellishly malevolent, chilling the marrow and freezing the spirit with its effective distillation of hopelessness and lightless oblivion into sound. Many dark ambient artists venture into these realms to seek inspiration but very few come back with anything more than bitty abstractions, piecemeal evocations that very rarely do more than provide glimpses and hints. Here, though, Stillings’ Metaconqueror presents us with vast, broad canvases painted with the hues and pigments of a Stygian kingdom, bringing with them the smell of death, decay and brimstone. This is a set of beautifully realised and executed sound-pieces, at once both startling and terrifying.

01 The Great Antagonist
02 A Horizon Of Black Pyres
03 Apophis The Destroyer
04 Beasts Of Oblivion
05 Barrier Of The Gods
06 In The Stone House Unheard
07 The Pauper's Grave
08 Mephisto's Hammer
09 Invaders Of The Watery Abyss
10 The Decimation Sequence


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Metaconqueror : Banishment Of The Unforsaken [2004]

Metaconqueror is J. Stillings the man behind the Power Electronics project Steel Hook Prostheses."Banishment of the Unforsaken" is an impeccable black ambient masterpiece. Everything that is so good about black ambient music is to be found on this recording…and more starting off with an increasingly growing rumble and static mixture it progresses onto a garbled distorted voice then the deep dub echoes and noises begin. Thereafter the music becomes ever more threatening and chilling sending shivers of fear and pleasure running equally down the spine.Its a constant humming, like a ghost who’s hanging over the dungeon like sound fields of the composer. The constant humming is now interrupted by icy noises and than by other sonic manipulations.Played during sunlight it has the capacity to have you hiding behind the sofa with its threatening sonic display. Play it in the dark though…and just watch those nightmares begin.

1 Pestilence [4:44]
2 My Name Is Legion For We Are Many [5:34]
3 The Betrayer [6:13]
4 Dirge Of The Crucified [4:02]
5 Order Of The Golden Dawn [6:11]
6 Temple Of The Morning Star [8:16]
7 Forging The Gates Of Gehenna [6:16]
8 Of Empires Burning [5:43]
9 Cerebus [6:23]


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