Primeval by Sutekh Hexen

SUTEKH HEXEN at the core has conducted experimental black metal deconstructionism from the blight of the Bay Area, and depending on conceptual framework, with a global cast of high-calibre talented collaborators for over 14 years. Initially (and anonymously) SUTEKH HEXEN took the underground by storm with a trio of very limited demo tapes utilizing their distinctive unification of raw atmospheric black metal with scathing noise electronics, heavy textural anti-rhythms, dark ambient expanse and unsettling vocals. And with each consecutive release the concepts, production and dynamics became more elaborate without compromising their foundation.

However with this latest offering, 'Primeval', the magisterial sonic-alchemists present a rather dramatic focus, reembodying their trajectory from another angle of the point; still haunting and immersing the listener in an eerily familiar space: their space...

Recorded on location in the majestic (darkness) of the redwood forests, decaying WWII era bunkers and a light-soaked wooden chapel on the west coast in California and Oregon, to the northeastern haunted pastures of the first American witch trials in New England, the urban brutalism of Berlin, to the glorious and ancient caverns deep within the French Pyrenees.

SUTEKH HEXEN have undeniably pushed and progressed boundaries once again. 'Primeval' can be considered their most authentic, cinematic and polarizing album to date. With these 8 tracks of base elemental transmutations, utilizing arrangements of exclusively acoustic instrumentation and other non-electric methods of sound generation via: acoustic strings (guitars, viola, violin), percussion: (metal, stone, wooden objects, timpani), wind: (pipe organ and open-air orations) resulting in their brightest recorded material ...casting the darkest shadow.

The journey begins, perhaps this is the end or maybe the beginning?
The theme closed full circle, were you (t)here?


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This was the 279th Cycle & BSBB000

Psychedelic cacophony treading minimalist and maximalist sensibilities.

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