Ether is the latest solo project from Scythrawl, who has also played with Trails of Anguish, Unquintessence and Nefastüs Diès. Ether’s music is said to ‘represent a journey into despair and the deep, negative emotions that grip those who just can't cope with their surroundings.’ Sounds interesting enough to me.
Ether’s music is more or less fairly brutal black metal, but with a bit of a psychotic rage and depressive undertone intact. Frenzied raw guitar riffs mingle with grindcore-esque styled percussion and painful high pitched shrieks of horror and ghostly spoken parts lead the chaos, while each of the six main songs are followed by a short dark ambient piece. The music is on the other hand not always overly brutal and sometimes a bit more mid-paced, and it’s at this point in the songs where a more miserable feeling can be heard, but mostly the songs stick to the brutal pace. The ambient pieces, although short (longest is only 1:37 in length) are great and I honestly wouldn’t mind seeing Scythrawl undertaking a dark ambient project someday.
For a debut album ‘Depraved, Repressed Feelings’ is fairly good, and should definitely be investigated by those that adhere to sick, cruel, depressively brutal music.
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