This is a posthumous discography from short-lived Southern California art-sludge outfit Anubis Rising (whose members can now be found in Intronaut). These guys surprised the hell out of us with this bizarre and enigmatic tuneage that merges spacey electric basement indie psych rock (w/ a totally black-neon 80's vibe) to crushing death ooze that pilfers from the combined sludgecore/black metal/dronecore/math-death playbook. Comparisons can be drawn to the melodic heaviness of bands like Isis, Pelican, Neurosis, and Buried Inside, but there's alot more going on here like weirdly effects-overload stoner doom and mindmelt space rockiness, spasms of lopsided death metal chaos, SoCal prog rock, and other weirdness. The meat of their matter is in the breathtaking, tragic sounding melodies of the lighter psychedelic pop parts, clean guitars bathed in reverb and watery effects and sometimes strummed on acoustic guitars with lightly sung vocal harmonies, and structured around proggy forms and bold durations which eventually erupt into huge metallic crescendos. My grey matter keeps projecting visions of Dinosaur Jr.'s eponymous debut being covered by Opeth meets Mastodon-gone-funeral-doom meets Eyehategod meets a dark Goblin/Pink Floyd hybrid, with neurotic post-hardcore seizures mangled by vicious V.O.D.-esque (circa Still) metalcore and ripping thrash metal hallucinations come screaming out of feedback/tape-splice mudbaths and ambient dronescapes and sweet jangly rock. Battle ready dual-axe harmonies dominate old-school Metallica / Fucking Champs style all throughout this mother, too. The vocals are just as textured, switching between blackened screams and clean crooning and brutal crusty bellowing. Track two, "Firmamentum", is worth the price alone with its memorable somber psychedelic pop verses melting down into a majestic melodic mega-tar-metal dirge, like Eyehategod and Swallow The Sun and Skepticism mashed together in an echo chamber with some poor lysergic bastards on the run from the Paisley 80's. Awesome. I wish these guys could have maintained, as this is truly original stuff, a weird epic cinematic melodic prog metal drone tech dream that fries us every time this disc gets tossed into the C-Blast Central ghetto blaster. Funerary Preamble contains almost 80 minutes of material, consisting of their obscure Funerary Preamble EP, the Scales Of Truth EP, and their split with UPHILL BATTLE. Recommended.