On October 31st, Amor Fati Productions will release Netherdom‘s highly anticipated debut album, Forsaking, Forseeking, on vinyl LP format. And today, the Black Metal Promotion YouTube channel streams the album in its entirety. Hear Netherdom‘s Forsaking, Forseeking in its entirety exclusively HERE.
A bolt-from-the-blue debut from a veteran of the black metal underground, Netherdom is an entirely solo endeavor, but the sound across Forsaking, Forseeking is quite vast. Featuring a unique style of production – flat yet full, raw yet refined – Netherdom whip forth a spacious, spectral style of black metal that equally nods to the ancients and the palatable end of modernity. From touchstones like Ulver’s Bergtatt to Paysage d’Hiver’s Winterkälte to even Black Cilice’s Banished From Time and Voidsphere’s To Sense, To Perceive, the shadowy entity nevertheless explores his own visions, firmly within the pantheon of black metal but by no means exclusively tethered to it. The 41-minute album itself features three epic tracks, with the second side taken up by the monolithic, nearly-24-minute “To Forsake Remnants of an Existence Bereft of Meaning” – indeed, altogether the ideal length for maximum immersion in this alternately astral/wintry realm. To stand before each of these tracks is stultifying; to contemplate that each could reverberate infinitely within the darkest recesses of the soul – be it an “astral realm,” a “wintry realm,” or even some combination of the two – that riffs could be elongated and looped infinitely, mesmerizing into a vortex of splendorous impossibility, makes Forsaking, Forseeking all the more truly titled. Netherdom is the end, and the beginning.
In the leadup to its international release on Halloween, hear Forsaking, Forseeking in its entirety exclusively HERE, courtesy of the Black Metal Promotion YouTube channel. Cover and tracklisting are as follows:
Tracklisting for Netherdom’s Forsaking, Forseeking
1. Lured By All That Is Forsaken [9:27]
2. In The Depths Of The Fog [7:54]
3. To Forsake Remnants Of An Existence Bereft of Meaning [23:33]