It's starting to become difficult to keep track of all of the different incarnations of Stijn van Cauter, the Belgian doomlord that has been exploring the

heaviest frequencies of funereal metal-drone with a constantly changing lineup of projects over the past decade. I first caught wind of this guy with his

one-man band Until Death Overtakes Me, which had released a series of CDs that mapped out the bleakest realms of ultra slow motion doom riffing and ambient

synthscapes, utterly massive and austere heaviness somewhere between Skepticism's funeral doom and the abstracted ambient sludge of bands like Black Boned

Angel and Sunn O))). But there have been a endless array of other loner bands that Stijn has recorded under, like Fall Of The Grey Winged One, I Dream No

More, Dreams Of Dying Stars, The Ethereal, Organium, Tear Your Soul Apart being just a few, each one existing as a unique musical entity focused on a

specific facet of crushing metallic minimalism that Stijn explores in obsessive detail. One of these projects that I just found out about is Beyond Black

Void, which released only one album, Desolate, on a small Russian label called Marche Funebre. Fans of Until Death Overtakes Me will immediately

recognize Stijn's trademark guitar sound, a processed, mournful and almost synth-like drone that floats and echoes ominously over heavily distorted sludge

riffs with occasional timpani drums emerging in the distance. But the music on this album is even more minimalist and austere than Until Death..., the three

tracks of nearly-instrumental ambient dirge spanning 14-31 minutes in length, a tryptich of floating glacial funeral doom drone that stretches out into

infinity over a sea of low-frequency bass rumble, a score for travels across the wastes of some far off planet, navigated by Stijn's monstrous vocals that

are buried deep in the sludge and rendered another layer of subsonic drift. The whole album flows along in an unchanging crawl, and flows over you like

cooling magma...impossibly hypnotic and austere ambient doom, highly recommended to fans of Stijn's other projects, Nadja's fuzzslab sludge, funeral doom,

and crushingly heavy ambient guitar drone. This limited edition disc comes in a full color jewel case with illustrations of strange futuristic craft drifting

on otherworldly seas, packaged inside of a printed slipcase.