CROWN OF BONE / TENEBRIOUS Indiana Blackened Noise CDR (Obfuscated Records) 6.99As the title says, both Tenebrious and Crown Of Bone come from Indiana and (probably not too surprisingly) share some of the same members, but on this new split from Obfuscated each project delivers their own take on malevolent black industrial and demonic noise.
Tenebrious is the duo of Ralph Bates and Dustin Redington (Crown Of Bone), who create dense, oppressive and violent dronescapes out of layered drones, vast oceanic ambient sound, strange and disturbing voices and samples, and bursts of corrosive electronic noise. They aim to craft a putrid, moldering atmosphere of aural rot with their four tracks, moving from the crackling, entropic electronics and ghastly Lustmordian grave-drift of the opening track, to the squealing metallic cacophonies and rumbling dungeon ambience of "With It's Blood The Perverse Will Conceive An Ungodly Creation", a swirling slow-motion charnel pit of distorted synthesizer chords and deformed choral voices, the rustling and scratching of subterranean vermin and horrific moans of abject suffering. The other two tracks follow suit, drifting through nightmarish dins of crashing metal and collapsing tombs, disturbing synth drones, ghoulish vocalizations and passages of jet-black atmospherics, aural hallucinations awash in congealed black blood and corpses-gas, demonic presences and graveyard soil.
Beginning with the cold, piercing synths and vampiric howls of "Chambers Of Death & Decaying Flesh", Crown Of Bone moves through a series of crushing harsh noise sculptures, merging bestial vocals and rushing black distortion with sickening feedback tones and razor-sharp electronics that frequently shift out of the blackened noise wall approach that much of CoB's other releases display, and into a more nauseating form of digital wave abuse and high-end synthesizer destruction. There's plenty of the brutal static-trance annihilation that we expect from CoB, though, in the turbulent black-static storm of "Chambers Of Death & Decaying Flesh" and the vast blood ocean of "Epitaph Crusted Black", which resembles a Vomir track injected with the demonic roaring of Attila Csihar.
Released as a pro-manufactured Cdr with full color packaging.