It’s easily one of the most dramatic turnabouts in the history of music, and yet it’s gone largely unnoticed by the black metal enthusiasts who were sweating Xasthur’s every move just five years ago. Reference points for the album’s dozen instrumental tracks may or may not include John Fahey and Leo Kottke. It’s essentially Conner finger-picking an acoustic with occasional (and sparse) drumming by Ronald Armand Andruchuk. Last but not least, there’s hardly any electric guitar. Beyond the fact that it’s the same musician and takes its moniker from Xasthur’s debut full-length, Nocturnal Poisoning has almost nothing in common with Conner’s previous work. Earlier this year, Conner reemerged as Nocturnal Poisoning and released Other Worlds of the Mind on his own Disharmonic Variations label. That it would be Xasthur’s swansong was announced in advance by its creator, Scott Conner, who abandoned his longtime alias “Malefic” and used his real name in the credits for the first time in a career that spanned 15 years and 20-plus releases. Gateways upon gateways.In 2010, one-man black metal outfit Xasthur released its final album, Portal of Sorrow.
This first album is a unique moment in timeless time, a delicious abyss of dark and ethereal enchantment that takes Black Metal into another magnificient dimension. "The Dreaming I" is a fascinating and grandiose sonic monument consisting of five otherworldly compositions, five dark tunnels of fury and intensity in which to lose yourself, filled with dangerous and hypnotic melodies. He has used his terrific new creation, AKHLYS, as a vector to share this black onirism with listeners.ĪKHLYS is a gateway (gateways upon gateways… gateways upon gateways…), an opening to the sound of his own haunted dreams, the occult world of hallucinations incarnated in music. Naas Alcameth, the mastermind behind the beast NIGHTBRINGER, has amazing dreams, full of horrid shadows, white voices, and visions of nights beyond nights.
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