Abysmal "The Pillorian Age" (1995)
Fact: me and Black Winter Day are the only two people in the world who have ever heard this album. A pretty early Avantgarde Music, this is esoteric & sinister sounding black/doom from Norway with a strange fragmented lyrical concept I don't quite understand, but it's about kings and queens and ravens and vaginas cold as ice and a kingdom called Pilloria or something. Who knows. The music is very bleak, lifeless and threatening (while not exactly sad or depressing) and sounds kind of like Beherit mixed with Satyricon oftentimes played at doom metal tempos, with melodicism like early At the Gates (TRITSIO era) and almost haphazardly everchanging riffs, tempos and song parts in a manner not unlike early Opeth, but generally this flows better than something like "Orchid"
"Hymn XVI (Out of My Flesh)" MP3
Unfortunately utterly forgotten, and the band split up after this album AFAIK, their only other release being a demo tape. Should be talked about more. Very unique and original; no other band sounds much like this, though the atmosphere reminds me of Beherit's "Drawing Down the Moon" at times. Generally sounds more Finnish than Norwegian. Buy this album. Most probably require multiple listens to unveil its true power.
OUT OF MY FLESH
YOU SHALL BUILD THE TOWN
GALLOWENIA
GALLOWENIA
GALLOWENIA
GALLOWENIA
