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CROWN OF BONE / ILABRAT XUL  Thy Darkest Mentor  CDR   (Occult Supremacy)   5.00
Thy Darkest Mentor IS CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE FOR ORDER

The death-worshipping HNW of Thy Darkest Mentor is one of the first offerings from the new label Occult Supremacy run by Dustin from Crown Of Bone; this particular endeavor is a pure DIY effort with hand-scrawled magic marker writing on a Memorex Cd-r and a simple black and white xeroxed cover in a slim-line jewel case, with artwork from James Keeler (Wilt / Hedorah), each copy hand-numbered in an edition of fifty-five copies. The two long tracks (the first around twelve minutes, the second almost a half-hour long) feature the collaboration between blackened harsh noise act Crown Of Bone (ex-Demonologists) and Canadian black metal/noise weirdo Ilabrat Xul, working together to craft massive clouds of apocalyptic fly-swarm, a vast cloud of pestilential black buzz that at times resembles the sound of a black metal band drowning in an ocean of black Vomir-esque hiss. It's as suffocating as that comparison suggests, the first track shifting ever so slightly through different permutations of black blizzard buzz, streaks of squealing high-end feedback occasionally tearing through the roar of static.

On the epic second half of the disc, the duo start the track off with murky, acid-damaged black ambience, a croaking voice issuing threats and hissed incantations against a backdrop of ritualistic black drift, these first couple of minutes somewhat resembling the carrion-pit rituals of Funerary Call right up the when the duo explodes into another massive wall of black static, this time with those vile gargling vocals pushed up in the mix, a black-metallish howl echoing out of a megaswarm of black flies fat on corpse flesh. Again, the spectre of Vomir hangs over this sprawling hiss-scape, but with those constant howling, mewling, vomiting vocals that evokes visions of Abruptum's It being consumed by the electronic flyswarm, lost in a blackout blizzard of volcanic ash and sulfurous fumes, like a black metal-inspired Werewolf Jerusalem static-scape that finally drifts off into a long stretch of abject vocal misery and black ambient synths at the end...


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