Aesthetic Death has only been releasing about one or two albums a year over the past few years, but every time they come out
with something new, you can guarentee that it's going to consist of the most morose, mindbending extreme DOOM imaginable.
Esoteric, Stumm, Wreck Of The Hesperus - all have been documented by Stu at AD, and all are essential listening for fans of
ultraslow ultraDoom. The first new Aesthetic Death release since the killer Wreck Of The Hesperus CD from last year, Wijlen
Wij's self-titled debut came in at Crucial Blast just a couple of days after we got the new Nadja Corrasion CD in stock...every
time we played the Corrasion album (which has been alot this week, and Aidan Baker and Leah Buckareff would kick in with those
crushing, crumbling slabs of funeral deathdoom that took us by surprise, we were wondering what it would sound like if Nadja
sounded like that all of the time. Well, Wijlen Wij kind of answer that question. Their songs are huge, lumbering blasts of
slomo funeral doom, very much in the tradition of Skepticism's classic Stormcrowfleet and Thergothon's Stream From The Heavens,
ultra sloooow and intensely depressing, dark and raw, the long lumbering songs buried in an austere graveyard atmosphere.
But then there are the guitars, so saturated in distortion that they sound alot like Nadja's overmodulated walls of fuzzy
drone, massive crumbling waves of crunch pouring forth over sparse plodding tomb-marches beaten on huge tympani drums, over
which Wijlen Wij drape layers of ominous, beautiful church organ drones, minor key fugues, and haunting Gregorian chant-like
choirs. Awesome! The first track even sounds like a deathdoom version of music from the Conan The Barbarian soundtrack. 6
tracks of epic, desolate doom metal perfectly crafted out of obsidian riffage, which isn't too surprising as the band is a
virtual funeral doom/drone-doom supergroup, featuring members of Pantheist, Solicide, In Somnis, Until Death Overtakes Me,
and Fall Of The Grey Winged One! In a limited edition of 1000 copies.
