Here is a news which will please the addicts of slow, dark sounds and, of course, the fans of Italian-styled, creepy and gothic-flavoured doom/dark music.
The kings of cemeterial keyboard-driven retro horror/dark doom Abysmal Grief will soon be back from their baroque graves for entertaining you with a brand new album, a 12" split with Runes Order.
Abysmal Grief are well known to Doommantia readers (see all reviews and interviews here).
As to the other half of the split, Runes Order is a long-lived Italian act started by Claudio Dondo back in 1988 and involving different guest musicians in each release. Music-wise the Runes Order project devoted to a decadent and contaminated dark ambient genre which started from neofolk, industrial sounds and progressively drifted towards retro electronics, acid and cosmic psychedelia or krautrock à-la-Tangerine Dream/Klaus Schulze, horror film soundtracks, prog, metal, etc.
The Abysmal Grief/Runes Order split LP is due out via label Italian Doom Metal Records on April 13th 2015. The bleak and decadent mood of the release is masterfully expressed by the haunting, unsettling vintage photos of the cover art. On the split LP the two bands will express their own macabre hommage to darkness, esoterism, pessimism and death cult (piece Hymn Of The Afterlife by Abysmal Grief) or else blasphemy and lust (piece Snuff The Nun by Runes Order). The LP will be released in 500 copies, 200 in grey vinyl and 300 in black vinyl. A strictly limited number of copies will come with a numbered certificate handsigned by both bands.
You can read more details and get further updates about the release by visiting the bands’ webpages and especially via the Italian Doom Metal webzine.
Words: Marilena Moroni
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