Killer chaotic black metal meets Carpenterian synth-dread and ghastly Lustmordian drone on this fantastic cassette release from Colorado's Bestia Arcana. The band is another one of the myriad side projects that have branched off from the metaphysically-concerned third-eye black metal group Nightbringer, who have continued to display a fervent experimental streak throughout their various releases. The debut To Anabainon Ek Tes Abyssu starts off with the swirling cavernous chaos of "Cup Of Babylon" as Bestia Arcana unleashes a torrent of murky layered guitars and swarming tremolo riffing, evil dissonance and thick impermeable clouds of dank subterranean reverb. The vocals are totally unintelligible howls and serpentine hissing that curls around and melts into the sulfurous fog, but then the music drops off into a killer bit of blackened doom where the guitars become diffused into a shapeless black mist, while strange declaratory voices are heard high above the slow, deliberate drumbeat and blizzard-blast of swirling miasmic sound. This noisy, chaotic approach to Satanic murk reminds me a lot of the strange ritualistic music of Reverorum ib Malacht, and the whole recording is swathed in this constant wall of hiss. The songs often transform into bizarre cacophonies of bird-like shrieks and guitar-buzz layered over cyclical looping currents of reverb-drenched drone, and on other tracks like "The Pit Of Sheh-ohl", Bestia Arcana goes for dark, murderous synthesizers and deep buzzing death-drones infested with heavily delayed demonic whispers, similar to John Carpenter's more minimal 80's soundtrack work crossed with the amorphous black soundscapes of Emit; some of the vocals that show up during the album's more synth-heavy doses of ambient drift have an evil, processed sound that actually sounds more like something off of a power electronics tape. These ambient, synth-heavy passages don't overshadow the acute dread that seeps through the bands blazing black metal, though, only serving to enhance this epic, sometimes psychedelic drone-infested blackness. Definitely something that fans of the ritualistic weirdness of Emit and Reverorum ib Malacht would want to check out. This cassette version of To Anabainon comes in a clear plastic box bundled with a large black-and-white poster insert, all contained in a black velvet pouch.