Fetid mortuary ambience meets annihilating black noise! The latest split from prolific blackened noise outfit (and ex-Demonologist) Crown of Bone pairs him up with long running ritual black ambient project Funerary Call, who returns with one his darkest new recordings since Fragments From The Aethyr / Nightside Emanations.

    Funerary Call's "Idols Of Perdition" and "Silent Prayers Of Execration" are highly evocative crypt-rituals, much in the vein of his C-Blast release Fragments From The Aethyr. These tracks combine acoustic rattlings and dank subterranean ambience with monstrous vocal utterances, inhuman sighs and bursts of rumbling low-end, his blackened deathdrift sweeping through a vast underground system of tunnels and chambers, creating an awesome nightmarish atmosphere that stretches across the entire side. I've really dug the more ambient work on his recent Mirror discs on Cyclic Law, but this rougher, more hellish material is always my favorite side of Funerary Call's sound, a hallucinatory, utterly ghastly soundscape that curls its withered, knotted claws tight around your heart. Some killer black kosmiche synth-like roars rip through the blackness as well, trumpeting blasts of distorted electronics that amp up the heaviness a bit at certain points throughout the tape, and some glimmering, almost glitchy tones emerge across the second track to create a softer, more droning effect, but that creepy, chthonic vibe is maintained throughout the whole side. A perfect meeting of Lustmordian ambience and black metal-style charnel atmosphere, and one of the most evil recordings to come from Funerary Call in some time.

    Crown Of Bone counters that charnel creep with a completely different but no less blackened wall of abrasive, evil noise. "Befallen Pillars Of Dissected Flesh" and "Altar Of Nocturnal Decomposition" sprawl out into vast hellstorms of crackling black static and whiplash electronic skree, further enshrouded in a mist of tape hiss and high-end tension, while monstrous death metal-style roars rage over the cacophonic waves. Very similar to previous stuff that we've heard from this project, but it's an effective combination of HNW-style aesthetics and violent vocal horror, occasionally shot through with short passages of bleary, blasted beauty that break through the acid storm like streams of orchestral drift, underscored with layers of rumbling low-end drone and smoldering electronic grit, boring through the furious black swarms of distorted Merzbowian chaos. Really excellent blackened noise that fans of his earlier work in Demonologists should be checking out.

    Limited to 100 copies.